Agenda - 2:30pm Start

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

   • Helen edited to clarify Dundee leave policy

2. 5.0.0 Status/Testing Update - 14:31 UK

   • Code freeze Friday, RC Monday
   • Chris: blocker story on Trac
   • Petr: testing card on Trello
     • server setup on sysadmin trello board
   • Jean-Marie: consider moving non-blockers to 5.0.1

3. Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:36 UK

   • Redis based caching; Upcoming prototype
     • #11517 will be updated today
     • all against 4.4, but could go against 5.x

4. Consortium Update - 14:37 UK

   • Jean-Marie: meeting Ian at end of February, contacted Bill, etc.
     • June back on Monday, to work out arrangements
   • Ian: Bio-Formats fixes working, ideas on performance problem
   • Douglas: preparing for FOSDEM, user survey results collected into horrible spreadsheet
     • Chris: some Glencoe use of survey monkey
   • Sebastien S: needing to discuss further with Sebastien B about continuous integration, RC ready for Petr to test

5. Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits - 14:45 UK

   • Ola & Helen going to schools outreach event tonight. Set up 'scientific images' group on CLS repo to show teachers as a test (see UX board for further details)
     • informal meeting between life sciences people and teachers
     • will show them a couple of Paul Felts slides in OMERO
   • Early bird registration for VIZBI (not going?) and Craft Conference (Blazej?) ends 31st Jan
     • Jean-Marie: not going to VIZBI, too much else happening
       • Will: might be useful, hard to tell in advance
     • Blazej: would like to hear from several software-related speakers at Craft
       • message queues, big data, but conference is expensive
       • Chris: travel and accommodation more expensive than conference, but if keen then go for it
       • Jean-Marie: cost is not prohibitive
       • Josh B: also interested in attending
       • Blazej: will e-mail Jason, etc. to start arranging, cc: Josh B
   • Abstract submission for Manchester Microscopy congress is by 27th Feb
     • Jean-Marie: probably worth a poster at least, running a workshop just before the meeting
   • Jean-Marie: arranging outreach to Sussex, Nottingham, et al.

6. Continuous Integration talk by Sebastien Besson slides/pdf to come here - 14:56 UK

   • Jean-Marie: what is the plan with various Matlab versions?
     • now there are three Matlab-based consortium projects
     • Sebastien B: multiple versions are a considerable pain, rather test all of them well in one version
     • Sebastien B: soon get integration tests in place
     • Ian: specific MCR?
     • Sebastien B: Ian, Michael’s projects just need MCR, but U-Track needs more
   • Jean-Marie: Windows builds?
     • Sebastien B: definitely planned, Roger also is an interested party
     • Kenny: two more Windows build nodes recently added
     • Jean-Marie: current build takes very long on Windows
   • Will: much Python code is not yet passing flake 8
   • Will: style checking for JavaScript?
   • Jean-Marie: what of PRs that travis erroneously/transiently marks as errors? They are stopped in the CI pipeline.
     • Sebastien B: chosen people can restart it, prevents failed morning builds for test servers
     • Andrew: can we fix the current Bio-Formats travis problems?
       • Sebastien B: issue is largely maven artifact download failures
       • Andrew: no Bio-Formats builds use ant?
         • Melissa: indeed, but Jenkins uses ant plenty
     • Mark: not listing travis-failed PRs for review in daily stand-up

7. Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:44 UK

   • how to handle support questions from Twitter
     • Will: for simple questions with simple answers, respond by Twitter, otherwise can link to forums (even preparing answer waiting there)
       • Helen: responses to questions on Twitter should be timely
       • Will: could have a separate Twitter account for help / support
         • Kelli: would still be limited by 140-character limit for answers
         • Helen: may have to link to answer in forum
       • Helen: number of Twitter followers is increasing
   • FYI: Dundee move from MSI to CTIR delayed to summer
   • this week’s microphone set-up made it much easier to hear side conversations
   • Josh M to go over Trello next week, maybe also some ticket cross-linking

Done 15:51 UK