2013-08-27 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Jean-Marie, Jason, Ola, Blazej, Roger, Helen, Mark, Petr, Gus, Will, Andrew, Simon Remote: Josh, Kenny, Wilma, Mark H, Sebastien, Liza, Melissa, 14:38 UK - Curtis, Douglas
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Summer testing updates
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CI/Partner Projects (Sebastien)
- Jobs moved around - several hidden bugs found (not fixed yet) - Roger - integration not run against Java 7 before now. Bugs probably minor
- need to plan upgrades ahead of time (may break stuff)
- lots of stuff can break at once - requires a lot of resources to fix
- u-track hidden - wnd-charm in progress
- Tracking & Flim-fit: latest tracking code run against latest develop & dev_4_4 looking good
- Meeting in Edinburgh - Flim-fit etc 7/8th October.
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OMERO.server (Blazej) - 14:38 UK
- New integration testing PR OmeroJava bit more sane. Whitespace, imports, cleanup etc.
- Job moved to new node C6100 - much faster 40mins -> 4mins
- Database connection problem - ask JM.
- Timeouts make tests brittle. Need configuration / flexibility / break tests up
- Failing tests being tackled - mark
- Jason: Kenny - discussed lifesci compute performance. Need more high performance boxes (from facebook!) - Might not plug into SAN for storage/backup. Might find workarounds?
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OMERO.web (Will & Ola)
- Will: adding multiselection and multi annotation tests.
- Will: how long we need to wait to merge main testing branch.
- J-M: we need to build more keywords and decide about setup. Scripts, config files, etc.
- Ola is preparing keywords to access various users in the setup DB. E.g. user in read-only group etc.
- Need to setup Petr’s machine - can also run on howe remotely.
- Kenny is setting up laptop to run CI robot framework job.
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OMERO.insight (Mark)
- Opened PR of cleaned-up UI testing branch.
- Moving to 4.4.9 bug-fixing for now
- Will start training Petr to write tests
- CLI tests via robotframework - test login etc
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Docs & website (Helen) - 14:51 UK
- Products info page nearly ready
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Scripts landing page ready - but waiting on final decisions on script dirs structure
- Jason: looks good.
- Gus workflow for doc - User guides (Gus). Css, navigation etc being worked out. - Basic working site soon - can then tweak css etc. gdoc: UX-team / scoping / user guides.
- Josh: Do we wait for 4.4.9 for scripts repo? - Helen - don’t ask users to change workflow when 4.4.9 is released. - JM - Extra “month” is OK to wait. - SAB can access scripts repo page - url is live (but not linked in site) - Planning to auto-commit Gus’s guides etc to github
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Scenario writing (Petr)
- FLIM-fit merged. Ian is preparing dataset for more ‘real’ scenario
- gdoc for robotframework candidate scenarios
- preparing DB setup for robotframework. Image with annotations / companion files etc etc
- Need to discuss import strategy - numbers of images needed etc
- Look at Tarantula a bit more (Blazej has prepared a VM)
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Bio-Formats (Melissa) - 15:00 UK
- Away few days - Fixing failing & unstable builds. Should be green soon
- Few 4.4.9 tickets
- Coming to Dundee next week - agenda on gdoc
- Josh - No need for Tuesday meeting next week - need to revise meeting template (Summer is OVER)! - Testing to continue but lower priority
- Test images good? Once all the builds are fixed. No need for better hardware right now
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Workflows for tagging/UI scoping (Gus) - 15:05 UK
- Create P/D workflow pretty firm - ready to code
- Searching interface tricky.
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CI/Partner Projects (Sebastien)
Glencoe Update - 15:09 UK
- Hiring now, many strong applications
- Tagging work nearing completion (in web)
- Urls with text
- Terabyte dataset into JCB - move to new hardware
- CLI tagging PR - pretty much done. Next: linking of tags. Will allow large scale tagging
Consortium Update - 15:15 UK
- BF website discussion (see e-mail)
- ImageJ connectivity in progress
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Douglas - web prototype of tagging plugin. https://github.com/dpwrussell/webtagging
- C++ gateway - complex. Need advice, discussion etc. Meet with Roger… date TBC
Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits
- https://docs.google.com/a/glencoesoftware.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsgMvd8yPd5IdEdMNmJlX0VGU2QxWWQ2NzNxaUkzRGc#gid=0
- Mozfest - OMERO repos online - JCB etc
Any other business
- regular end 15:23 UK
- LOCI website discussion re: Bio-Formats (see agenda)