2013-09-10 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Simon, Gus, Colin, Will, Helen, Mark, Blazej, Petr, Chris Remote: Ian Munro, Jean-Marie, Curtis, Josh, Mark H, Sebastien Simard, Sebastien Besson, Douglas, Carlos, Ivan (14:39), Kevin (14:40)
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Testing update (tickets) - Blazej - 14:40 UK
- one bug fixed, now five failing tests
- plans made with Jean-Marie, Josh, Melissa for Testing2 trac milestone
- Python tests now being worked on (Colin, Carlos, etc.)
- SLF4J update broke integration tests, now fixed
- next issue is timeouts in CI jobs running tests on resource-constrained nodes
- also, ticket #11431 (pytest in CI)
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ticket #2101, copying method documentation
- Josh: would be good to do, but must note changes in argument types and exceptions
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JM: Insight tests passing in robot framework CI build
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excluding web tests (RF/Selenium)
- permissions problem on CI node
- will address in subsequent PR after SAB meeting, still in time for 4.4.9
- could now add further tests to UI-related PRs
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excluding web tests (RF/Selenium)
- Carlos’ work won’t collide with Robot Framework / Selenium activity
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Colin and Blazej working on build-side issues, Ola or Carlos may help
- Carlos will respond to Ola’s PR
- Will has PRs that change Blitz gateway
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Ola: where to put tests?
- OMERO gateway tests can be put under OMERO pytest
- Colin: moved from unittest to pytest, will show Ola
- Colin: pytest allows marking tests as failing, to be skipped, etc.
4.4.9 update (tickets) - Petr/Mark- 14:48 UK
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In the OMERO-4.4.9 milestone there are 57 open tickets and 51 closed tickets.
- The 11 closed blockers are mostly Insight, and some Scripting and Services.
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The priorities of the open tickets, largely bugs, are,
- 11 blockers
- 33 critical
- 7 major
- 6 minor.
- 4.4.9 also includes progress on an online script repository.
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All the open tickets are assigned.
- There are no more than 3 blockers per person.
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There are no more than 3 critical per person,
- except that Josh has 10 critical, some Services, and Jean-Marie has 7 critical, all Insight, as well as 3 blockers each and some lower priority tickets.
- Ticket counts are approximate: they change in real time.
- Themes of bugs include graphs, permissions, and Ice.
- When fixing some bugs, extra time will be taken to ensure automated test coverage of the relevant code.
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How about #10665?
- Part of some work on rendering settings (cf. publication) (not 4.4.9)
- Chris: may have already fixed this bug in OMERO 5 (#11427)
- Josh: will dig through his tickets, some will be too large / dangerous to attempt
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Josh: SVGRasterizer issue, ticket #11438, Blazej may be able to comment helpfully
- may relate to older OpenJDK versions
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In the OMERO-4.4.9 milestone there are 57 open tickets and 51 closed tickets.
Infrastructure - Sebastien - 14:55 UK
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State of Build/Servers
- pretty good, few failing builds
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Preparation for SAB. Anything needed by anyone?
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a server will soon be ready, here in Dundee, will dump Warlock state for it
- people can add images for their demos
- will ask Ian’s question about projectors, etc.
- will also bring a backup server on a laptop
- e-mail coming soon - how to upload, etc.
- Petr: please upload data into new users / groups, not mixing with others’ data
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a server will soon be ready, here in Dundee, will dump Warlock state for it
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State of Build/Servers
Glencoe Update - Chris - 14:59 UK
- recruitment, hoping to fill one position this week, the other next
- populating two-screen 1.7TB dataset for JCB
- so, Andreas’ tagging work on back-burner lately
Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:01 UK
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Presentations
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Josh: present on Robot Framework next week?
- Jean-Marie: a short overview would be useful
- Will, Ola, Mark: yes, can probably put at least something together for next week
- Josh: generally restart almost-weekly presentations?
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Josh: present on Robot Framework next week?
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Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits
- Gus is trying to get something going with MRC Edinburgh
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September newsletter? Trailing (pre) 4.4.9 release with new script workflow and system requirement changes
- just a suggestion, could well be better ways to spend the time this month
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Testing software - let us vote ? - general feeling ?
- Petr: we tried out MozTrap, Tarantula, Squash, Testuff
- Gus: which make Petr’s life easier?
- will discuss after stand-up tomorrow via Skype
- Jean-Marie: don’t have high expectations, just accept and move on
- Jean-Marie: whoever has tested one of the tools and wants to join, feel free
- have tried enough options, each one is more work
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Presentations
Done 15:13 UK