2004-11-05 Dundee, DKFZ
Attending:
Agenda
- Updates from Jason's meetings in the states.
- Current status (ROI analysis, future of the Browser, etc.)
- Asynchronous data services.
- Current/known problems with ome-java and OMEDS and how to shield agents.
- Plugin architecture and Eclipse, separate CVS modules for "experiments".
- Josh mtg with Josiah, Semantic Web, Hibernate, Java version, etc. // HTP ! // Bioimage, DSTC, eclipse, ExperiBase
- Import of Plates/Sites
- time in scotland or US? for josh
- update on ome.dkfz.de
Jason's non-technical stuff
- visited peter and ilya
- paper on OME-XML
- future: open source & commercial version (uk?) (up to 10-20 people) — details coming (us corp. for code, data model) white paper, etc.
- need for project manager. (salary,...)
- small business research in US. difficulties in patent arena. (awarded in cell phenotypes) ... IP!!! (papers & patents)
- code policy: research areas (break system)--> branch creation policy (wiki and nitpick) (go to subversion for this? -josh) anything broken in HEAD everyone fixes it. (third party patches being controlled centrally eventually??)---> plugin architecture will help this!!! (stf)
- searchable archive for wiki, nitpick, bugzilla, ....?? (chris)
- proposal: finishing up at the end of the year — freeze? — 6 weeks of defining rebuild of arch. (large mtg. mid feb.)
- communication has got to get better, videos; more traveling
- perhaps an extended meeting for the arch. rebuild
Josh's meeting
- will CC this group on stuff
- josh will possibly branch embl changes. or upload patches.
Faults / Error handling
- need to protect the shield agents
- need hierarchy on server and client
- OME-JAVA shouldn't throw IllegalArgumentException
- Perhaps need to change _ALL_ XML-RPC code for granularity
- will: fix browser agent for global categories
Perl problems
- Chris tries to reproduce
- Josh tries to find differences between two instances
Concurenncy
- Stefan may need to merge manually (hash maps)
- getting a central point to download images (caching!) — new agent
Eclipse
- Harry's arguments against.
General
- need optimization everywhere (server, thumbnails,...)
- off-line:chris and josh talk about sites; jason and josh about time abroad;
- discuss month in scotland