[Developers] [ADMB Users] diagnostics to help (especially new) users

[dave fournier]

On 13-02-17 01:14 PM, bigA wrote:

When it was closed source it just wrote itself. I remember.
> Code does not write itself; someone writes it.  Is there any 
> documentation for developers?  Does admb have a plan to cultivate a 
> development team?  Is the plan to just keep Dave as chief developer? 
>  Do we have a standard battery of tests?  It seems daunting enough to 
> learn to use admb; learning to develop admb seems undocumented.  I 
> guess I am just curious if there is a plan to develop admb developers?
> Cheers!
> Aaron
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, John Sibert <sibert at hawaii.edu 
> <mailto:sibert at hawaii.edu>> wrote:
>
>     This seems like a reasonable idea to me, but I doubt the code will
>     write itself.
>     John
>
>     John Sibert
>     Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
>     University of Hawaii at Manoa
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>
>     On 02/13/2013 04:39 PM, dave fournier wrote:
>
>         I am working with a guy who has tried to produce a fairly
>         complex model
>         without understanding much about how ADMB works. One of the
>         problems that
>         newbies have is the nature of properly initializing variables.
>         It should be easy to have a
>
>            ./xxx   -init
>
>         to verify that parameters are properly initialized.  It would
>         just have to
>         evaluate the userfunction twice with the same initial
>         parameter values and
>         check the values of the model parameters to see where they differ.
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