2009-01-09 Project-wide Conf Call

Attending: Josh, Melissa, Curtis, Kevin, Brian, Will, Ola, Jean-Marie, Andrew, Chris, Donald

Unofficial agenda
- schedule? one week?? feature freeze
- Roadmap
  - temporary image in 4.1
  - rest of curtis' list
- FS (tabled for Monday talk)
  - import history for 4.0 (last imported, failed)
  - non-automatic import, but a client to click on
- Process
  - forums v. emails
  - email lists : ome-devel, etc.
  - looking at others code and "too big"
  - feature groups
  - code-a-thon & training
- jason's glencoe email
- documentation
Process emails
- everyone ok?
- default communication should be public
  - lots of people are keeping track (even if not speaking up)
  - should decision making process be private?
  - not polluting space
  - perhaps not changing right away, but need better use of it
  - ome-devel gets emails at proposal-level
  - many questions are happening in isolation
  - using nitpick better
  - but we would also like to encourage people to contribute code (ome-devel)
  - re-evaluate the community stuff after release, but try to use nitpick more
Status
- client
  - feature freeze end of next week (java client)
  - testing on the various platforms (OS X 10.5)
  - week of 17th with a testing session
- server
  - using mapper objects for FS/server-side import
  - speak up if you want anything added
  - 20-30 commits coming
  - still need to work on throttling
- post feature freeze
  - @ Fix session keep alive (java-clients only?)
  - move annotations server-side
  - throttling
Iterations
- first iteration
  - finishing feature freeze in clients
  - ui testing
  - planning session for the rest of the release
- second iteration
  - documentation?
    - "how do I create a class?"
    - keeping the beta3 documentation
    - copying wiki pages is pretty broken
    - trac in multi-project mode?!?
    - take a step back and use this better
    - moving documentation to www.o.org
    - similar to the emails -- checklist for knowing what to put where
    - making the trac visible and linking to o.org better
    - need to evaluate the trac pages we have and what can be moved
- third iteration
  - ???
Bioformats
- goal: attaching from FS
- currently have several hacks to make things work
- @Chris tries to refactor them and send those to Melissa
- need to have RAStream more extensible
Universal protocol solution
- meeting this coming monday or tuesday
- @will will send emails to everyone
- things are going well
OME-TIFF
- Question from MediaCybernetics
- Need sample OME-TIFF files (more complex ones)
- Which ones?
- data/ome-tiff/curtis ?
- Yes, but files might not be validating.
- @Curtis will take a look and see why not.
- Wanted samples with multi-part files
- We have them. (Z/4D)
- Was the problem still the web validator not working with multi-file TIFFs?
- ome-tiff/tubHis.... (time2 is the most complexed)
- http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/ome-tiff-data.html
- Possibility of creating a simple download that can produce OME-TIFF
  - Some issues with namespaces to make the data validate.
  - bfconvert to produce OME-TIFF that validates.
  - Will Andrew's working on that cause any problems?
  - e.g. CustomAttributes --> CA:CustomAttributes
  - Curtis: Don't know of any code that would break.
  - But they should happen regardless
  - Feedback is very valued. (Might be tricky to fix)
1Bit pixel type
- Good for ROIs
- There are various types: Pixels, ExtendedPixelTypes (more than UINT8)
- What's the support in TIFF look like? Unsure. Probably yes. Other formats can.
- BMP, PNG, TIFF == yes.
- Using crazy pixel types in bioformats
- Flag to round up to bits?
- Need to write up a proposal. Lots of implications.
- @Curtis forwards his response to the bioformats list to ome-users

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