2014-01-28 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Andrew, Gus, Sebastien B, Kenny, Chris, Mark, Emil, Petr, Jean-Marie, Balaji, Will, Simon, Helen, Graeme Remote: Melissa, Josh, Ola, Wilma, Blazej, Zeb, Andreas, Kelli, Josh B, Ian, Douglas, Colin, Carlos
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- Helen edited to clarify Dundee leave policy
5.0.0 Status/Testing Update - 14:31 UK
- Code freeze Friday, RC Monday
- Chris: blocker story on Trac
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Petr: testing card on Trello
- server setup on sysadmin trello board
- Jean-Marie: consider moving non-blockers to 5.0.1
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:36 UK
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Redis based caching; Upcoming prototype
- #11517 will be updated today
- all against 4.4, but could go against 5.x
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Redis based caching; Upcoming prototype
Consortium Update - 14:37 UK
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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
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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
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Jean-Marie: meeting Ian at end of February, contacted Bill, etc.
Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits - 14:45 UK
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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
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Early bird registration for VIZBI (not going?) and Craft Conference (Blazej?) ends 31st Jan
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Jean-Marie: not going to VIZBI, too much else happening
- Will: might be useful, hard to tell in advance
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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
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Jean-Marie: not going to VIZBI, too much else happening
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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.
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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)
Continuous Integration talk by Sebastien Besson slides/pdf to come here - 14:56 UK
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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
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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?
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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
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Andrew: can we fix the current Bio-Formats travis problems?
- Sebastien B: issue is largely maven artifact download failures
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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
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Jean-Marie: what is the plan with various Matlab versions?
Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:44 UK
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how to handle support questions from Twitter
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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
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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
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Will: for simple questions with simple answers, respond by Twitter, otherwise can link to forums (even preparing answer waiting there)
- 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
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how to handle support questions from Twitter
Done 15:51 UK