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)

Reminder: Meetings on Tuesdays are now at 2:30.

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Matters Arising (<10 mins)

   • Jean-Marie & Scott: put together guidelines for the team ticket#4268
   • Andrew: move big ticket review to the next Thursday
   • Everyone: Feedback to Josh about subversion email
   • Andrew: Push pending items
   • Chris: Update download page for review
   • Chris: remove blog and redirect to plone
   • Everyone: go through bugs older than 6 months
   • Will, Ola: add viewer/roi screenshots of big image work on tickets
   • Brian: Send TOC doc page to everyone
   • Andrew: Send AJ the OME-XML export tickets for future plans
   • Jean-Marie: Andrew MW about auto-login config options, add ticket + patch for 4.2 ticket#4229 and ticket#4221
   • (For Thursday)
     • Review/update "4.3+ Priorities" i.e. list of "big things" for next sprint review

3. Sprint Update (20 mins)

4. Any other business (<5 mins)

   • 24th meeting for new furniture at new office. Confirm who's going.

In Attendance

Ola, Brian, Carlos, Melissa, Josh, Curtis, Donald, Will, Jason, Jean-Marie, Chris, Colin

Notes

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Accepted

3. Matters Arising (<10 mins)

   • Jean-Marie & Scott: put together guidelines for the team ticket#4268 -- Pending
   • Andrew: move big ticket review to the next Thursday -- Pending
   • Everyone: Feedback to Josh about subversion email -- Done
     • Chris: frontpage? currently all OMERO. Needs to also be OME, BF, etc.
   • Andrew: Push pending items -- DONE
   • Chris: Update download page for review -- Pending
   • Chris: remove blog and redirect to plone -- Pending
   • Everyone: go through bugs older than 6 months
     • Now belwow 50 (reduced 20)
     • 4.3 has 12)
     • JMB: Still are some without owner
   • Will, Ola: add viewer/roi screenshots of big image work on tickets -- PENDING
     • Haven't added and screenshots yet but should be done this week
   • Brian: Send TOC doc page to everyone - DONE
     • Want to have all docs together (user & dev)
     • easier to maintain
     • CSS should keep it usable/nice.
     • Jean-Marie: scientist related closer to the screencasts
   • Andrew: Send AJ the OME-XML export tickets for future plan -- PENDING
   • Jean-Marie: Andrew MW about auto-login config options, add ticket + patch for 4.2 ticket#4229 and ticket#4221 -- DONE

4. 4.3 Priorities Review (for Thursday)

   • Jason: Today trying to figure out where we are in 4.3 and what is realistic to expect for release
     • Milestone Page:
       • Needs an outline ala 4.2
       • Chris: These tickets are documentation, bf, big images. Lots of tasks not covered yet!
         • Jason: Need to flesh this out
         • Jason: May 15th/June1 release date is probably more realistic then April 1
     • Calendar:
       • Going to use the 'OME Fall 2010' calendar
       • April: OMERO @ UEA is 6th to 8th, (3 more sprints before UEA meeting)
       • June: Paris meeting mid-month
     • Would be nice to do user testing before UEA
       • How much time would we have for testing (internally and externally)
       • Chris: Baseline testing of big images would require:
         • Block-based Import (in-place)
         • Which client will be ready soonist?
           • JMB: Won't start on insight till next week.
           • Ola: Bugs are there, but it works now. Needs to tie in with new rendering engine
           • Chris: Can use EM and ASCB data for testing Brian: SVS? Chris: Not working currently
           • JMB: 5 days of work in whiteboard for big images
           • Chris: By sprint 6 end should be able to:
             • test webclient up to 10k x 10k big images + panning
             • no thumbs, 100% view only
             • Some form of navigation
           • JMB: Zooming is not going to be ready by Sprint 6
           • First testing cycle right after sprint 6
             • Will: Should we then ask for realistic datasets? Chris: have some already from ascb data
         • Jason: focus of next two weeks?
           • Jean-Marie: that's what most of the tickets are.
           • Need to take time to break tickets down
           • Realistic, but still "out of the hat"
           • Dmac: Where does importer stand?
           • Dmac: How are we representing data on server (ie: one big file)?
             • Chris: Don't see us changing this before Sprint 6 end
         • Dmac: Worried about working on thumbnails & how we cache them * In thumbnail context, recreating thumbnails for big images needs some thought (could kill server) * Chris: API for BF or OMERO should be the same for getting images * Still a problem for decompressing some formats (very slow) * Chris: Are we going to calculae thumbnail at import? Currently no plan to change this
         • JMB: At end of Sprint 6, play on Friday, report bugs right away so we have tickets right away
         • Sprint 7 then about reveal/fix big images bugs from sprint 6
           • Solid viewing of Big Images by then
           • Solid plan for multi-resolution, compression, thumbnailing speed, zooming, etc.
           • Donald: if we are going to perform thumbnailing, then we're talking about scaling
             • The way we seek through IO is an issue, etc.
             • Framework for changing/updating them in place
             • Can't think of a quick way to do this.
             • Chris: discuss next Tuesday
             • Jean-Marie: matter of finding the X stories which MUST be there for 4.3 delivery (and what comes after)
             • This is a first shot. Compare permissions
           • Curtis: Deep Zoom? We have had good success. CatMaid uses the same idea: hierarchical mipmaps.
         • JMB: Spring 7 or 8 for code freeze, then evaluate
           • Jason: Where do we do zoom planning? JMB: Wait for thumbnailing discussion
     • Chris: Zooming probably not finished realistically by end of Sprint 7
     • Look at 'Top-Level Open Tickets 4.3' link in trac, all of this needs to be cleaned up
   • Other topics (non big images)
     • Malcolm and Jos coming on at end of Sprint 6

5. Presentations (Next Tuesday)

   • Donald on big-images thumbnailing

6. Sprint Update (20 mins)

7. Any other business (<5 mins)

   • 24th meeting for new furniture at new office (28th). Confirm who's going. What we want.
     • Furniture presentation is on the 28th @ 1 (Jason/Brian?/Chris? will attend)
   • JMB: Had a FLIM meeting and need to get the new folks up to speed in David's group
     • Need to get together on Monday with Pieta, JMB, Donald to organize
   • Ola: on vacation march 21-26
   • Web meetings (API Unificatin and Blitz Connection)
     • Dates?: Tuesday morning API unification
     • Will send out email for Blitz Connection
   • Cell Classifier
     • Will be at the UGM meeting in March, should talk to him about HDF ideas

8. Action items

   • Chris: move trac.../omero to trac.../ome
   • Chris: draft front page of trac
   • Everyone: Go through old bugs and take ownership of 'unowned' tickets
     • All tickets have an owner by Thursday!
   • See pending items
   • Brian: Move new TOC to plone site
   • Brian: email Andrew to send AJ to ome-xml
   • ???: Improve milestone page
   • Everybody: plan by Thursday all tickets for sprint 6
   • Donald & Colin: Meet before thursday to discuss importer/thumbnailing
   • Donald (for next Tuesday Feb. 15th) Presentation
   • For sprint (6): Review https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/report/9 and reduce tickets
   • Webviewer and zooming detailed by Thursday!
   • Will: send email about Blitz connection and API unification meeting on Tuesday