2013-10-01 Tuesday Team Meeting
Attending: Dundee: Chris, Simon, Gus, Jason, Petr, Helen, Andrew, Colin, Roger, Blazej, Mark, Jean-Marie, Ola Remote: Sebastien B, Josh, Mark H, Melissa, Sebastien S, Will, Ian M
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Development update
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4.4 Status (Josh)
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Integration testing status
- a lot of cleaning up was done over the summer
- documentation and builds are still catching up, help if you can
- the more people involved, the better, can’t just be a couple of people
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Blazej just rebased a horrible OmeroJava PR, is fixing timeout issues
- a lot of work left to do, trying to close tickets
- some tests not written so as to be able to run against a remote server
- say something if there is some component you needed tested by Hudson
- please voice any feedback regarding what has been done and what should be done
- Colin has been reviewing which Python tests duplicate Java tests
- Colin, with work from Josh and Carlos, has got far in converting 4.4 to pytest
- Colin: a complication is that new PRs can newly break tests
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Release prep (Sebastien)
- working on integration test and release infrastructure documentation
- make release process smooth and easy
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will try setting up a couple of CI jobs according to prior proposal
- rationalize job configuration, use omego
- a lot of work to get this working, may not be all there for 4.4.9
- will present on these jobs around late November, early December
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Trac milestone
- 88 tickets have now been closed for 4.4.9.
- 18 tickets remain open.
- The open tickets are: 3 blockers, 13 critical, 1 major, 1 minor.
- Jean-Marie, Josh and Sebastien have the blockers.
- Other owners are Blazej, Helen, Mark, Roger, Sam, Simon, Will.
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Can all 4.4.9 tickets be either quickly resolved, or pushed to 4.4.10?
- some graph-based issues may be pushed to 4.4.10, some already fixed on 5.0
- push Roger’s C++ cmake/scons stuff to 4.4.10
- (inasmuch as there ever is a 4.4.10)
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Security issue
- Josh: a must-have for 4.4.9
- Known limitations: graphs, etc.
- Not moving scripts around on 4.4.9, will do on develop
- Helen’s open 4.4.9 tickets shouldn’t affect testing.
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4.4.9 testing has started.
- cannot use Ice 3.5 client against 3.3 server
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Next steps
- 4.x will be maintained
- much new development will be on 5.x only
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Integration testing status
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4.4 Status (Josh)
Glencoe Update - 14:54 UK
- focus on getting a couple of bugs fixed
- some UI importer things happening over coming days
- new hire or two in the next few weeks
- latest bits going into latest screen (out Oct 14), then another screen to follow
Consortium Update - 14:57 UK
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SAB Meeting (Jason)
- thanks to all who put such effort in
- independent evaluation of the team and its progress, achievements, plans and vision
- very important to funders
- largely ran demos successfully from remote servers
- having to present things helps to cause it to get finished and presentable
- the board encourage more external visits (improvement of 2012 slide)
- need to emphasize and show how many applications work against Bio-Formats and OMERO
- discussed how modern a large data application OMERO is
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SAB Meeting (Jason)
Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits
- visit the US in late March, committed to Albuquerque, NM
- Monday, Tuesday: visits to Edinburgh and Barcelona
- No one going to ASCB
Any other business (<5 mins)
- Dundee: new OME project administrator hired, hopefully from Nov 1.
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Good to have presentations available to put on the website.
- Andrew can help with licenses for necessary software.
Training material new site: Gus' presentation (20 mins) GDocs slides - 15:10 UK
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reverse GH workflow: changes from staging site become PRs on way to live site
- previous versions will remain available as PDF
- will be decently printable
- required to be usable from mobile devices (especially tablets)
- want to be live for 4.4.9 release
- Jean-Marie: moving videos closer to tutorials? Helen: link.
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Jason: can’t keep as just straight HTML in the long term
- Chris: pain of adjusting menus, changing and testing for each page
- Gus: could reverse-engineer CMS requirements from current pages
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Gus: pages designed as sequential instruction sheets, not heavily linked
- Jason: users may return to instruction sheets as reference more than intended
- Chris: will have to find a templating system that does what Gus needs
- Jason: at least one multiplier is 6+ applications in addition to web/insight.
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Chris: what about integration with other content? Links to and from our other documentation.
- may be okay to not have such links
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Helen: these user documentation changes are planned to go live for 4.4.9
- Jason: wants to review with Gus and Helen before it happens
- Chris: can show Gus the Glencoe CMS that Liza uses
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Roger: can a standalone zip be made available for offline HTML copies of the site?
- Chris: yes, should be easy
- Gus: images are all hosted in one place
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Sebastien B: how to start getting other OMERO applications’ user guides integrated into this site?
- Gus: depends in part upon whose responsibility it is to create and maintain the documentation
- Helen: others will want some way to get their guides onto the site
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reverse GH workflow: changes from staging site become PRs on way to live site
Done 15:49 UK