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2008-01-31 Project-wide 3:45 GMT

Attending: Alexa, Andrew, Brian, Car, Chris, Colin, Curtis, Donald, Jean-Marie, Josh, Will

Agenda


  • OME-XML
    • Andrew's email-- anything more to discuss?
  • OMERO Server
    • Beta3.0 updates
  • OME Server
    • 2.7 updates
  • Web site
    • Any problems with new layout?
    • New design


Notes

  • specifying types
    • curtis: do we need to invest the time?
      • andrew: to get something more correct
      • andrew: also ease of use (long user names)
      • curtis: handfull of instances where changing them would make sense
      • curtis: agree, let's define the circumstances
      • chris: two important things
        • ease of implementation
          • enforced in lots of places in the schema
          • other places where we do nothing
            • allowing negatives, or far too large ranges
        • performance is also very important
          • everything wide open creates serious perf. problems
      • andrew: the specification is supposed to help people
        • at the moment it's very hard to write an interpreter
      • curtis: could work that data mungling happens at bioformats layer
      • chris: in floating point case, bioformats passed something valid down stream
        • but there other cases where completely
        • don't think it's going to be more than 10-15 fields
          • andrew: not as much about the floats (only 32 & 64)
          • ints and strings are the larger issue
          • number?
    • change all obvious places where it's absurd
      • but when we get data that goes outside those ranges, we have to re-evaluate
    • specifics
      • time?
        • currently using unbounded "integer"
        • move to 64 bit?
        • usually lo/hi precision timestamp
      • anyone examples of strings?
    • Andrew adds list to email thread for further discussion

  • tiff file path and other XML changes
    • post call talk with email sent to everyone

  • omero
    • josh: should be fairly stable for structured annotations
      • sessions coming soon; have a deadlock to workon
    • brian+chris got importing working with new server
    • jean-marie: data visible to new server, despite small problem with images
      • now working on non-textual annotations
      • other file types? josh: later...pdf would be next
      • haven't tested onlyIds & fetchAnnotations

  • connectivity issues
    • curtis is also running into problems
    • certain network+/etc/hosts configurations causes issues
      • hard to enumerate which ones
    • beta.2.3-1 & you should be ok (in latest run script)
    • symptom: clients will work on same machine, but not remotely (or take forever)
    • curtis:
      • webadmin works
      • insight connects locally and remotely
      • importer does not connect locally or remotely
      • chris: bugs with jars? send what's in the debug window to brian.
    • jar issue problem
      • need script to check permissions on jars (brian has done)

  • no install instructions for the mac server .dmg
    • failed to install on OSX server
    • generic/manual worked
    • chris: if you've got postgres installed, don't use it. (in bold red text)

  • ome 2.7
    • curtis is fixing bioformats
    • difficult to set up testing framework
      • lots of layers
      • infinite loop
    • working on socket based server for java/non-java communication
      • very simple and want to keep it that way
      • ikvm does not support swing

  • webpage
    • will look basically the same
    • some bits will look like plone
      • brian: make it look not like plone
    • jason and andrew went through 1 inch of dead paper
      • current / move / rewrite & what menu section for each page
    • more pictures initially, then when you dig down come the words
      • adiumx.com as example
      • small screenshots of a single functionality so don't have to redo all

  • omero.fs
    • working on slice definition for proposed interface


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