2012-08-21 Tuesday Meeting
Attending: Emma, Colin, Elwood, Josh, Gus, Will, melissa, Blazej, Jason, Jean-Marie, Chris, Roger, Andrew, Liza, Carlos, Douglas, Mark, Sebastien
Agenda - 2:31pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- None
Sprint & 4.4.2 Updates
- Jean-Marie: reviewed every morning
Proposed Process Changes - 14:37 UK
- Emma: in office through the end of Sept.
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Jason
- great feedback on 4.4.0
- scaling effects
- 1 year goals/reports
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Standups - 14:43 UK
- Andrew: main issue is just typing speed
- Jean-Marie: can’t delay the start of the meeting.
- Josh: ideal goal is to have build done night before and agree at standup.
- Colin: ok to edit the notes? Definitely.
- Emma: the more that gets put in ahead of time the better
- Melissa: email / edit notes ahead of time.
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Tuesday meetings - 14:55
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Andrew: agenda template.
- Emma: Don’t need sprint or individual updates, goal is to have more presentations
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Andrew: agenda template.
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Client strategy meeting 15:00 UK
- Jean-Marie: Testing clients, people attend based on their need.
- Andrew: Elwood now on insight? Yes. Blazej - working on server
- Emma: open (non-exclusive) but certainly not required.
- Melissa: agenda posted? Yes.
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Carlos: web client mtg. had great interaction / huge tool to let web work done interact with open source
- every other week is fine. 2pm is hard.
- will likely want to be included on most things.
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QA - 15:08 UK
- Improvement coming. (When Chris comes back?)
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Git & Trac - 15:09 UK
- Josh: Don’t have to name branches, but might help know what’s going on
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Chris: could also have tickets updated earlier. Updated before develop merge?
- Ok to merge without updating ticket?
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Josh: Closed = PR on tickets, don’t reopen / edit tickets once code is committed to a PR.
- Discussions happens on the PR.
- Jean-Marie: add testing instructions; screenshots can help for UI changes.
- Melissa: BF users expect close ticket == new jar. will have to add more info.
- Jason: just a matter of weeks to fix that
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Four-week sprints - 15:21 UK
- Jason: re: discussion in Paris
- Attempt to not hold back features (see chgrp/4.4.0)
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Andrew: LTS releases if we’re doing more?
- Jean-Marie: discussed for FS and schema, support FS for a while.
- Chris: definitely want to get bug fixes out quicker
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Holiday - 15:30 UK
- Missing 4.4.0 deadline hurt w.r.t. vacations
- Hopefully 4-wk/focused sprints will help
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Team building - 15:31 UK
- Wilma sent out dates. Wants to help drive.
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Team tutorials - 15:33 UK
- Jason: going to cafes, etc. to spend time talking (Will: and pubs...)
- Josh: git/hub, other tools, process, etc
- Jean-Marie: and document it!
- Chris: jenkins, eclipse, profilers, debuggers
- Melissa: good notes taken!
- Sebastien: should be re-integrated into developers’ documentations
- Elwood: recording those? (at least if it’s a presentation, etc.)
- Jason: more audio/video equipment? (Andrew: laptops? Different money.)
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Scoping excercies - 15:39 UK
- Josh: scoping FS tomorrow. Everyone should leave tomorrow having a good feeling :)
- Then we continue scoping the rest
- Jean-Marie: may have to re-scope something based on feedback, be sensitive to change.
Code signing - 15:47 UK
- General code signing
- Web start on OS X 10.8
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Chris: out-of-scope for 4.4.2
- explicit signing rules (like Java and Windows have been doing)
- can skirt for our own applications
- catastrophic for webstart (have to change system preferences)
- need code signing certs (couple hundred USD)
- must run mac 10.8 on apple hardware
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Douglas: certs from university system for free?
- Chris: but not on Windows; different scope in code signing world
- Andrew: app store then? Yes.
- Chris: new gear, new dev. process
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Dev. versions of OMERO won’t be able to run in some environments.
- since we can’t propagate certs everywhere.
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Jason: security?
- Chris: Can’t allow our certs to leak or we get banned.
- Chris: have to document this
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Elwood: no service like for iPhone?
- Chris: Apple decided to use different certificates from Java and Windows
Recruiting / Interviews Status
- (Already covered around 15:37 UK)
Conference Suggestions - 15:55 UK
- EMBO: JM, Roger, Sebastien, Andrew
- ASCB: Chris, Melissa, Colin, [Gus/Blazej/Elwood]
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Explanation:
- Big conferences with exhibition space, t-shirts, etc.
- Demonstrating software
- Melissa: Lot of work.
- Emma: good experience
Satellite Update - 15:58 UK
- Conference call.
- Douglas: OMERO running after hardware people
- Sebastien: Documentation not really satellite work
- Jean-Marie: received download of their application
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Emma: Douglas, visit or availability for testing?
- Depends on how stuck I am; if yes, then useful to come up.
- Available for testing.
- As satellite have been trying to convince people to use OMERO. Open to go to meetings?
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Emma: yes. (Discuss off-line. See link in last mtg notes)
Glencoe Update - 16:02 UK
Any other business (<5 mins)
- Is it time to remove: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/omero-blog/ ? (Delete it)
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Andrew: T-Shirts? 3D / Wordal
- Liza: Send slogan I’ll do design.
Finished: 16:25 UK