2014-01-14 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Simon, Will, Kenny, Emil, Jean-Marie, Balaji, Mark, Jason, Kelli, Gus, Ola, Andrew, Helen, Chris, Blazej, June, Roger, Petr Remote: Josh, Colin, Carlos, Ian, Mark H, Melissa, Seb B, Andreas, Seb S, Douglas, Josh B, Curtis
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Balaji Ramalingam has joined the OME team in Dundee.
- experience in HCS
4.4.10 status - 14:29 UK
- Outstanding work; ETA?
- Josh: open PRs can be merged, try a 4.4.10 build on howe tomorrow
- Petr: looking good, no major issues, new release scenario (including BF/ImageJ)
Branch policy (5 mins) - 14:30 UK
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dev_4_4 for 4.4.x (howe), dev_5_0 for 5.0.x (gretzky), dev_5_1 for 5.1.x (trout)
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Should new development happen largely on dev_5_1 only?
- dev_5_0 gets major bugfixes (and some easily rebased fixes)
- we tend to release from branches that have been stable for a while?
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or, should most new PRs reach both dev_5_0 and dev_5_1?
- except those changing existing API or model
- more eyes typically review the same code
- some users have strong aversion to upgrade from 5.0.x to 5.1.y?
- Josh: don’t open PRs against 4.4 unless really necessary
- Josh: rebase from 4.4 to 5.0, but new development onto 5.1 (develop)
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Jean-Marie: tickets in 5.0 milestone are for dev_5_0 branch
- some could be pushed to 5.1 milestone
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Should new development happen largely on dev_5_1 only?
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dev_4_4 for 4.4.x (howe), dev_5_0 for 5.0.x (gretzky), dev_5_1 for 5.1.x (trout)
OME presentations - Jason (10 mins) - 14:38 UK
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put presentations into the presentations folder on squig
- or web ones in downloads, e.g. reveal.js
- presentations have a title, and an outline is useful given diversity of talks
- finish up with acknowledgements slide (with good coverage!)
- Liza worked up good PowerPoint templates, well worth using them
- @@Andrew: move Artwork/ templates to the one location
- @@Andrew: /ome/team/Talks, /ome/team/Abstracts, and google drive
- Will: also posters
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JoshB: require PDFs?
- Jason: .pptx has worked well; PDF is good for distribution
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put presentations into the presentations folder on squig
Glencoe update - 14:49 UK
- Chris: screens going up on Monday
- Jason: JCB data viewer now five years old
Consortium update - 14:50 UK
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Seb S: tool release
- Helen: can add to partners page
- Jean-Marie: perhaps install on server and demonstrate
- Seb B: CI tab for consortium projects
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Seb S: tool release
Upcoming meetings/conferences - 14:53 UK
- Big Data in Biology (SF, March) - website claims we can still submit a poster, discounted registration deadline is 21st Jan (Done: Douglas, Josh)
- Early bird discount for Craft Conference ends 31st Jan
- Abstract submission for Microscience Microscopy Congress 2014 in Manchester is 27th Feb
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JM & Petr need another helper for ABRF in New Mexico?
- don’t need helper
- visit Madison, WI beforehand
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Gus registered for Crieff - poster and presentation (unlikely to get) entries submitted
- abstract on squig
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Paris users’ meeting: June 5th-7th after CTLS 2014
- dev meeting at the end? Yes (Saturday).
Will Moore's presentation on WebFigure (35 mins) - 14:59 UK
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better name for WebFigure?
- OMERO.figure?
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Jason: glaring to-do’s?
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Will: more, nice-to-have’s
- how to save figures as some kind of annotation, then can be edited further
- Andrew: as it stands, users may accidentally lose figures by deleting images used in the figure
- must have versioning (standardization?) of file format
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Will: more, nice-to-have’s
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Jean-Marie: keep as separate app in own repository, or integrate into core?
- Simon/Douglas: keeping separate can encourage us to add more webclient hooks for plugins
- Chris: Glencoe already has separate repositories whose software can be deployed with OMERO, may be able to reuse Glencoe scripts to allow similar workflow on open-source side
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Jason: representation of thumbnails other than datasets.
- Gus: been discussing making better use of the center pane
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Carlos: another use case - re-usage of tool for actual journal authors (make everything OMERO)
- would be bad if it were integral part of OMERO.web, but should be a separate app (for re-usage)
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Chris: drastically different technology; try to make best use of it. (but can’t communicate between 2 tabs)
- Will: using local storage for copy-n-paste?
- Chris: allow the sharing of events via the backend?
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Gus: very positive user feedback
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Douglas: use of templates (replacing movies, etc.) are great. but saving over templates can be confusing.
- have things that are just templates?
- incl. specific journal templates
- Will: that gets back to the previous script way of doing it with figuring (complicated)
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Petr: don’t have to use templates; also don’t call them “templates” (would get lost)
- disappointed about the manual copying of image IDs
- Will: almost prefer the full page for building the figure; works personally.
- Jason: right click “send to webfigure”; drag-n-drop
- gdoc cut-n-paste?
- local storage?
- Chris: all the copy buttons in browser are flash applications
- Andrew: “last image viewed” notion in server?
- Chris: would need server-side message-passing API
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better name for WebFigure?
Any other business (<5 mins) - 16:05 UK
- Jean-Marie: next week has review of teaching server, etc.
Done 16:06 UK