2013-07-23 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Andrew, Gus, Mark, Chris, Petr, Helen, Blazej, Simon, Ola, Roger, Kenny (14:42) Remote: Sebastien B, Colin (bad connection), Ian, Andreas, Curtis, Douglas, Mark, Melissa, Sebastien S
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
LSC -x accounts for non-Dundee consortium members (10 mins) - 14:32 UK
- Can we decide what resources people with external Dundee accounts should/shouldn't have access to e.g. trac, file-shares, hudson, VPN, necromancer, other servers, website/plone, QA2- etc.
- Simon: this question arises from at the Paris users’ meeting wanting to help consortium members get more involved
- Chris: those at original satellite meetings should already have plenty of access
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Chris: giving users -x access is okay, Jason can approve that
- does not allow VPN access, does allow fileshares if users are in correct groups (indeed, all of squig)
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Chris: ome-dev group currently gives full access to Jenkins
- using a different group would change that but adds complication
- Chris: if Chris Coletta and Ivan are members of ome-dev then much will work (except Agilo)
- Ian: add Yuri to FLIMfit github repo? Chris: sure
Summer testing updates - 14:42 UK
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CI/Partner Projects (Sebastien)
- integrating FLIMfit into Hudson, just installed Matlab, will try to build and package
- make it possible to deploy FLIMfit artifacts, fast way for Imperial to test changes
- allow Ian to manage jobs and configuration
- not much on BioBank, will be after vacation
- generally going well, more jobs to come under Jenkins’ analysis tab
- Simon: fixed up pyslid tests, some OMERO.searcher bugs
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OMERO.server (Blazej)
- MozTrap instance for integration tests, introduced to Petr
- next week will work through a scenario in MozTrap as a team
- reviewing FitNesse, allows simple business logic for test cases underneath, may not have value for our situation
- intent to evaluate Cucumber
- Colin reviewing integration tests (pass/fail)
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OMERO.web (Will, on leave)
- Ola: testing Will’s PR
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OMERO.insight (Mark)
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Looking for opensource frameworks for automated UI testing, but many not maintained.
- SwingLibrary plug-in for Robot Framework - initially looking okay (also there is a Plone plug-in!)
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Marathon - aimed at Windows, works enough on Mac
- porting of Robot Framework scripts might be possible, but documentation is poor
- many frameworks not updated in the last year, user manuals even older
- not aware why Robot Framework will not work on Windows
- prefer scripts to be Python-based rather than Ruby-based due to team familiarity
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Looking for opensource frameworks for automated UI testing, but many not maintained.
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Docs & website (Helen)
- latest round of tidying and Americanization has gone through
- next is tiff and format updates and DropBox
- BioBank now has links on partner pages
- first draft of script sharing page now up on Plone
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Scenario writing (Petr)
- now have working version of FLIMfit on Mac from Ian
- have been otherwise occupied with 4.4.8p1 and Ice 3.5
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looking at getting test scenarios into MozTrap
- Blazej: uses markdown, which should ease the process, including for screenshots
- got started with Marathon, ran into initial configuration difficulties
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Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- cleaning up long-running PRs, few left open
- improving build stability
- making supported metadata documentation more robust
- say today if you need anything, away from tomorrow
- Kenny: will try builds on newly available servers
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Roger: C++: working on horrifying xsd-fu stuff
- difficult to get building properly, but light at end of tunnel
- Chris: will need to step back and see how we feel about the direction it has gone
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Workflows for tagging/UI scoping (Gus)
- scoping, tagging, finishing off work pending since before Paris
- publication, dashboard, other work
- keeping user documentation up to date
- developing training materials for workflows in discussion with others in CLS
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Chris: status of QA suggestions from Logan at NREL?
- Ola/Sebastien: thanked him, suggested move to fora, haven’t heard more
- Chris: Gus should contact Logan to see if he will discuss his ideas further
- http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk/qa/feedback/?status=&date=&text=&useremail=logan&do_filter=do_filter
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CI/Partner Projects (Sebastien)
Glencoe Update - 15:08 UK
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Chris:
- focus on tagging UI and performance (Andreas)
- dataset based on scripts from on Will’s Gene Ontology work, includes many tags
- usability issues arisen, should discuss (including Gus, Liza)
- command-line plug-in for working on tags (Sam)
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Roger: is semantics of tagging being changed, problems with that fixed?
- Chris: no
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Douglas: meaning of tagset is ambiguous
- Chris: decisions on that are beyond Glencoe alone
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Chris:
Consortium Update (every month) - 15:13 UK
- skipped
Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:13 UK
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Chris: barbecue plans?
- perhaps some car-pooling is possible
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Dundee-only: chairs, chair is available to try in the lab
- ordered by Wendy
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Chris: barbecue plans?
Done 15:22 UK