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)

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Matters Arising (<10 mins)

   • Scott: Did Andrew put up the Norwich meeting page to the wiki? -- PENDING
   • Andrew: Add 'admin only' forum for code subs - UNKNONWN
   • Chris+: Organize discussion about big image optimizations
   • Andrew: put loose tasks into #3657 - UNKNOWN
   • Carlos: fix and close #3649 - PENDING
   • Brian: Check on other DVs and see if all DV files are reporting incorrect metadata - PENDING
   • Jason: Email Bernd about citing our work
   • Andrew: see Jason about updating publications page with how to citation our work

3. Sprint status: (45 mins)

   • No presentation today.

4. Any other business (<5 mins)

   • Scott: Confirm the start of user testing date. (26th or 30th May 2 weeks after code freeze.)
     
   • Scott: Confirmation of the above date for use with external testers. (Would sending t-shirts/magnets be suitable for thanks/bribery)
   • Scott: Paper for e-Science All Hands Meeting York - 23 May 2011 is the deadline for abstract submission.

In Attendance

Brian, Colin, Chris, Jean-Marie, Scott, Melissa, Simon, Jason

Notes

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

   • APPROVED

2. Matters Arising (<10 mins)

   • Scott: Did Andrew put up the Norwich meeting page to the wiki? -- PENDING
     • JMB: Need to talk to Jerome about his screenshots, etc.
     • Jason: What format?
       • JMB: Web link or whatever Jerome has, but would be nice to have PDFs for offline viewing
       • Jason: Believe Jerome has just printed from the wiki, should just use his pages
       • JMB: Agreed, just have to check with Jerome
       • Jason: Hard to maintain documentation, wiki is best I think.
       • Jason: Would be nice to get that content moved here
   • Andrew: Add 'admin only' forum for code subs - UNKNONWN
   • Chris+: Organize discussion about big image optimizations - PENDING
     • Had some discussion with JMB about parallizing tiles, a pain,
       • requires a change to save bytes writer/saver and making them thread safe (75% done)
         • Hopefully I/O limited then on imports
       • Also need optimization for low resolution pyramids - lots of iterations over tiles here
         • Needs to be pre-calc'd and aggregate tiny tiles
       • Also need to discuss a way to get images in directly in importer (with colin & jmb)
   • Andrew: put loose tasks into #3657 - UNKNOWN
   • Carlos: fix and close #3649 - PENDING
   • Brian: Check on other DVs and see if all DV files are reporting incorrect metadata - DONE
     • Back ported fix to 4.2 branch as well
   • Jason: Email Bernd about citing our work - DONE
   • Andrew: see Jason about updating publications page with how to citation our work
     • Jason: started doing that and ran into formatting issues with the page - IN PROGRESS
       • Wanted a sub-section for that, not sure how to hack that
       • May need to create new page for citations, feedback welcome

3. Sprint status: (45 mins)

   • Chris's update on importing big images is above
   • JMB's: Turned off measurement/movie making with big images, will need a fix later
   • JMB: Wrapping up with big images
   • Scott: Working on user testing, waiting for code-freeze to start testing with users
     • Do we have sufficient time for internal testing before release?
     • Jason: Should update nightshade shortly before the 12th
     • Chris: Would be ideal to have it a few weeks before release
     • Jason: How badly will this break Michael?
       • Chris: Should be ok will need to update jars
       • JMB: Some updates/bug fixes to measurement tools
       • Jason: Need to get latest build to Michael ASAP
     • Schedule: 12th for code freeze, 16th for internal testings
     • Scott: External testing? Jason: Week after internal if things go well
       • JMB: How many guys? Scott: Up to 5 or 6 scattered around
       • JMB: Should concentrate on web testing latest Firefox, Safari, IE
       • Scott: Confirmation to send out t-shirts/magnets to any external testers when necessary.
     • Colin: Testing no Ubuntu 8.10? No. Chris: 10.10 only would be my pref
     • Melissa: Are we going through our testing tickets this week? Chris: A bit premature, see on Thursday
       • JMB: if we use 512x512 images can probably start testing now
       • Chris: Will need to make sure we re-test any images we import now again when we get to release
       • Conclusion: Wait for Melissa's testing for next sprint

4. Forum/Mailing List:

   • Chris: a few things that need to be addressed when Josh is back - things that are missing.
     • Extending search bridge documentation - a bit vague now
     • General web template documentation - missing some things needed for 'real' development
     • No delete documentation on the developers side
     • Access to configuration properties remotely (needs to work first!)
   • Need to decide what to do about the OME-XML modelling forum post
     • Lots of examples in their post, not a 5 minute reply. Are we replying before he gets back?
       • User needs examples for HCS format (+ 1 metatdata version of that)
       • Jason: Lets give them a quick reply with what we have now + proposal we have now
       • Chris: Still have no schema in our proposal.
       • Let them know we will work on it and get back to them
   • TIFF+companion initialization file proposal in the forums
     • Melissa has no proposal for this currently
     • Chris: replied to him already saying to send us the data and we will cogitate on it
   • Chris: We are getting lots of workflow questions which we know internally but not documentated
     • We need documentation for all of this
     • JMB: Don't see this being planned before release

5. Any other business (<5 mins)

   • Scott: Confirm the start of user testing date. (26th or 30th May 2 weeks after code freeze.) - DISCUSSED ABOVE
   • Scott: Confirmation of the above date for use with external testers. (Would sending t-shirts/magnets be suitable for thanks/bribery)
     • Scott will send them
   • Scott: Paper for e-Science All Hands Meeting York - 23 May 2011 is the deadline for abstract submission
     • BBSRC meeting in September (deadline for submission 23rd of May)
     • Need to decide who is going to that (maybe Will & Scott)

Action Items

* JMB: Talk to Jerome about screenshots, etc from Norwich
* Jason: Put up citation text for Andrew
* Andrew: Touch up Jason's citation text (see him for details)
* JMB: Meet with Michael for ROI stuff ASAP
* Chris: Reply to forum about OME-XML request
* Scott: Contact Jerome and Mark for all hands meeting