2010-03-11 Thursday Meeting
Attending: Brian, Chris, Josh, Jean-Marie, Donald, Colin, Andrew, Will, Ola, Melissa, Carlos
Agenda
Remember: Agenda must be complete (with estimated times) on the day before the meeting. Any additions after that must go at the bottom (AOCB)
Accepting minutes from last meeting
Matters Arising (<15 mins)
- Someone: Fix the HCS preview page (Josh? Andrew? Chris?)
- Josh, Carlos, and Ola really need to sit down and talk about a django example
- Josh: Send an email to ome-devel re: ticket #1855 (session timeouts)
- Ola: Confirm if there is a way to add tickets from shoola with Jean-Marie
- Ola: Modify QA to submit tasks and not bugs
- Ola: follow up with demo users about what they were doing (why were they creating lots of empty containers). Find out how many bugs were generated from demo users.
- Ola: Check the sessions table to see how many of the demo users actually logged in.
- Jean-Marie & Ola: synchronize some of the permission insight/web issues
- Melissa will follow up to BF user if necessary
- Chris & Melissa: add OME-XML examples
- Chris/JM/Josh: Need to add a few things to trac for 'bug triage' with JM on Friday
- Chris: is going to update svn for users and remove old users from svn
- Chris: go in and change all old bugs to TASKS with the prefix 'BUG:'
- Chris/Brian: adjust the importer to pass original file id for linking
- Brian: make a QA build of the importer for everyone to use
- Brian: pick up import QA/forum items and ticket.
- Brian: clean up the last of the QA tickets
- Josh: organizes a discussion on ofiles UNIQUENESS
- Josh: we'll need to decide how to handle the same hierarchy for multiple users / groups
- Jason: respond/confirm presentation for Donald @ BMVA
- Donald: write ome-devel about mongo migration in one week
- Donald: move FLIM work to requirements and link in stories and taks
- Will: contact Case about data-in, matlab, etc.
- Will: add an error to console out option for scripts
- Everyone: ALL FAQ QAs should be done by Thursday
- Everyone: import data into mage, then look for issues in BOTH web and insight
- Everyone: Update your workplan pages for anything new and let folks know
- Everyone: Any suggestions for NDim workplan please let Donald know
Review sprint (10 mins)
- Any questions?
Email and Forum Review - checked at (5 mins)
- Email -
- Forums -
- QA -
AOCB (<5 mins)
- Paris Mtg registrations
- Upcoming database upgrade (4.2-DEV__1)
Notes
Minutes accepted
Matters arising
- HCS preview page: done
-
Django example not done
- Merge trunk this iteration, then @discuss
- Email sent on 1855
- No intertrac links, have to use descriptions
- @QA not modified. This week. (Ticket exists)
- ticket:1832 Melissa didn't get a file, but did reproduce
- OME-XML examples? Not ready yet. (Closing ticket for now)
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dual tracs
- we'll have to do some duplication
- don't modify the fields unless you know what you're doing
- insight's burndown is bogus, because of shared capacity
- svn users update
- @Chris still needs to fix "bug" titles
- @Brian creates an FS ticket for linking original file
- Brian did his QA build & QA items
- Jason wrote to Donald. @Jason sends abstract to Donald. @Donald responds.
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FLIM-analysis
- discussion with Pieta & David
- if we want to give David anything, we have to do some work
- will take time. should we do it?
- proof-of-concept to David by mid next-week
- with push we can give him 90% of what he needs
- David's doing several hundred acquisitions per day
- acquisition is ~0.5 hour
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Chris: What's missing?
- Several things
- ROIs client-side from server * Number? 4-5 per acquisition * Every ROI is a new analysis results * 500 analysis runs per day.
- Script is running, but needs to be run faster * Swig wrappers, using MPI, using job submissions
- Some way (UI) of getting results back and presenting them
- Then we have a FLIM workflow that saves 10s of hours
- Really just want to give folks the heatmaps
- Then there should be another dozen people wanting to do FLIMs
- Time? A week to have something to show people.
- 2 iterations (including holiday)
- Has a month worths of reslts, then he won't be doing it anymore.
- @Have an alternative storage this afternoon
- Will contacted Case for demo
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Faqs?
- @Jason has the collaboration question
- @Chris & Andrew will reduce the list
- @All should be done by tomorrow
-
Data in mage for testing permissions
- Session today at 4
- thumbnailing not working betweening users (may block the session)
- Will hasn't retried changing group to read/write
-
Updating workplan pages?
- @Workplan should be moved to requirements
- Tracking actual time?
-
NDIM
- Need to have a discussion
- Push for FLIM interaction
- Phase & Modulation is coming to FLIM (buying new camera in June)
- Discussion on Monday 2PM (UK)
- @Andrew attaches files from Imperial to the ticket
Review sprints
- Chris: gotten a bit huge
- Several have come from moving tasks to stories
- Jean-Marie: some stories are dragged along
- Chris: worries me that 30+ tasks for more work than our capacity
- Josh: stories are often incomplete and you have to add tasks as you go along
- Chris: good thing is that we've noticed this 5 days on
- @Chris will take out automatic owner assignment
Email / forums
- forum: several are open but we've replied
-
ome-devel: permissions
- trunk / dbupgrades
- SQL / won't be able to upgrade
- need to test the group/user-name issue
Paris registration
- Angie's doing it
- Program for the Paris? (a little time, but start thinking)
- Jason has been contacted about presentations (Knime,...)
- Spencer has also asked about a program
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How to efficiently / effectively present a year's worth of work?
- Eg.: FS, tables/storage, permissions, ...
- These help us define our targets
- @By Tuesday, Jason will come up some topics on a page
-
Jerome wrote about coming to Dundee
- His code is now cross-platform
- @Jean-Marie sends the dates the Jason (mid-april)
- he'll be deploying on OMERO deployment (were funded)
DB upgrade
-
Josh: There are a few small things that need to changed. Should we do this before the DB upgrade?
- Jean-Marie: Yes! Image.format field (with Ola)
- File format list
- SPW stuff? (Pushing calls server-side)
- Jason: add new microscopy types and other enumerations
- Channel objects and pixels objects fixes
- Jean-Marie: HCS changes should be doable without breaking anything
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Josh: There are a few small things that need to changed. Should we do this before the DB upgrade?
JCB paper
- Curtis has sent some suggestions
- Jason needs comments first thing tomorrow at the LATEST!
Action Items
- Ola: Modify QA
- Carlos & Ola: prepare django example after merging next week
- Chris: finish up the moving of all BUGS to TASKS
- Brian: need to specify an image id for origianl files (ADD TICKET)
- Jean-Marie: organize a time for the oFile UNIQUENESS discussion
- Jason: send BVMA abstract to Donald
- Donald: respond to Jason's BMVA email
- Everyone: Alternative storage meeting THIS AFTERNOON with interested parties
- Everyone: A few FAQ questions left for people
- Everyone: 2:00 Monday meeting for folks interested in file UNIQUENESS and N-dim.
- Andrew: attach files from Imperial to the ticket for n-dimJ
- Chris: turn off Agilo automatic owner assignment
- Will: test the group/user-name issue
- Jason: By next Tuesday put up a page with Paris topics for discussion
- Jean-Marie: send the dates for Jerome's visit to Jason/Josh
- Everyone: review Jason's metadata article for JCB. Deadline is tomorrow (Friday)