2011-07-26 Tuesday Meeting

Attending: Brian, Chris, Andrew, Will, Colin, Ola, Josh, Melissa, Carlos, Simon, Curtis

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 (<10 mins)
- Chris: Update security page with managerial content and link prominently!
- Andrew: Update front page of ome to point to new security page - Discussed in dev team and consensus was not to put link on front page.
- Chris: Write back on Imaris <-> Omero email
- Document bioformats plugin requirement for OMERO.ij.
- Will: Go through insight QA bugs, ticket as needed
- Ola: create a "Guest User" story within "Public Data" (ticket 1733) requirement for 4.3.2 (DONE #6316)
Any other business (<5 mins)

In Attendance

Brian, Chris, Andrew, Will, Colin, Ola, Josh, Melissa, Simon, Curtis

Notes

Accepting minutes from last meeting
Matters Arising (<10 mins)
- Chris: Update security page with managerial content and link prominently! PENDING
  - There was a debate in devteam
  - Andrew: Consensus no security in front page
  - Chris: will put the content on the page.
  - Only linked from menu and install apges.
  - Ola: not enough on installation pages, have people asking pages.
    - Perhaps we put it under the prereqs.
  - Josh: would still argue that we need should add content to the "About OMERO" page.
    - screencast, etc.
  - Chris: perhaps bring the security page up the hierarchy (support/omero/server/security)
  - Andrew: split/duplicate part of it out to a more friendly security page.
  - Chris: never convinced that anyone looks at our FAQ pages.
  - Andrew: Update front page of ome to point to new security page - Discussed in dev team and consensus was not to put link on front page.
- Chris: Write back on Imaris <-> Omero email PENDING
- Document bioformats plugin requirement for OMERO.ij. _DONE as ticket for J-M ticket:6285_
- Will: Go through insight QA bugs, ticket as needed DONE
  - Chris: we've asked Perkin Elmer about Columbus user
  - Adjust memory usage issue will be ticketed.
  - Perhaps provide alternative plist and windows exe4j config files for download
- Ola: create a "Guest User" story within "Public Data" (ticket 1733) requirement for 4.3.2 _DONE #6316_
Any other business (<5 mins)
- Chris: guest user changes on gateway - low level of webgateway?
  - Ola: didn't get rid of guest account, but in template has check for special users.
  - doesn't prevent going to URL of special user.
  - add a decorator to prevent anyone from going to the page?
  - Chris: shouldn't really need it.
  - Change made? Overwrote "Edit table" functionality in gateway class.
- chgrp (Josh)
  - There are some big questions (even bigger than delete)
  - Doesn't make sense for one person to make them.
  - Josh will work on the skeleton of the service for Thursday
  - Then we should discuss the deeper issues, and who will be participating.
- deliverables
  - discuss on Thursday
- Thursday
  - No Colin. Any issues?
    - FS lite progress.
    - Back Monday morning. Leave Wed. evening again.
  - Simon: ok on VM front? Yes.
- BF
  - Chris: ICS reader made a lot of changes? Testing?
  - Curtis: Aivar, guy in Curtis' office on spectral lifetime (Paul Barber's data)
  - Detailed email sent to Melissa, locally tested.
  - Chris: we're happy as long as Melissa tells us what to test for the OMERO workflow
  - Do we have the files? On data share: ics/paul
  - Pull them into the images_good?
  - Melissa: currently reviewing. A couple of files don't work anymore.
    - Unclear who's going to fix those.
    - Then get that into master and cherry pick into dev_4_3
  - Curtis: if they're easy to fix, feel free. Otherwise contact author.
    - should be pretty easy to reach him.
  - Andrew: is he a contact person for model questions? Probably not.
- Shuffling desks (off teamspeak)