2014-07-01 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Simon, Petr, Gus, Mark, Emil, June, Jean-Marie, Blazej, Helen, Andrew, Dominik, Balaji, Simone Remote: Josh, Sunil, Chris A, Stick, Curtis, Douglas, Ian, Kelli, Melissa (Webex only), Seb B, Seb S
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
June/CTIR Move:
- building has been handed over
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crates available from 7th July, E&B will be moving them on the 14th
- make sure one is available for Will who will be back on the 14th
- should use Thunderbolt screen boxes to move those
- bags available for confidential waste
Accepting minutes from last meeting - 14:36 UK
- accepted
Project Status (15 minutes max)
Mainline (5 minutes) - 14:36 UK
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upcoming features board on Trello: to-do cards with checklists
- [???] in checklist indicates item is yet to be picked up
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most UI features done
- Dominik working on Insight search UI
- Will has a week after return for search UI work before code freeze for 5.0.3
- nd2 work done, Melissa mostly to work on fake reader
- Helen back, so documentation cards will be worked on
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upcoming features board on Trello: to-do cards with checklists
Glencoe Update (5 minutes) - 14:41 UK
- no large outstanding issues
- been providing Ola, Will, Douglas feedback on PRs
Consortium Update (5 minutes) - 14:43 UK
- Simon: wnd-chrm beta release coming
- Ian: using BF API to create OME-TIFFs, Yuriy working on OPT
- Sebastien B: after migration of repository, introduction to git, etc. u-track release coming late summer
- Douglas: working on jsTree, jQuery updates; commented on Gus’ gdoc
- Sebastien S: working on QA issue, related to large number of files
- Curtis: working on ImageJ2 bug-fixes, following the large changes
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Simone: as explained on nitpick mailing list, split work into two parts
- drive HPC jobs, schedule batch computations on hadoop cluster, from server OMERO.scripts, get results back into OMERO.server
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provide OMERO more scalable back-end for floating-point numerical computations -- tables API is limited, need to slice huge arrays, etc.
- some scalable back-ends are from hadoop ecosystem, some not (e.g., MongoDB)
- aiming for back-end that works well on arrays of numerical data
'QA tools including Corgi and dogfish' - Josh (20-25 minutes plus 15 mins questions max) - 14:56 UK
- automated assistance from corgi in getting uploaded QA files imported into dogfish
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in due course, corgi could automate further things, via webhooks
- for instance, for each PR from GitHub, have Jenkins do build with that PR merged, and then create docker image from it
- see related cards on Trello boards
- Jenkins already has jobs in the Docker view that build from the ome-docker GitHub repository
- more about QA2 after Ola’s return
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 15:20 UK
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new ome-help repository for Gus’ help site
- PDFs to move to downloads.openmicroscopy.org
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Presentations over the summer?
- after Emil’s OpenCV presentation next week, suspend presentations until maybe start of September
- can still give reports, etc. when need be
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Status of Developer Certificate of Origin?
- defer until Jason is available
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new ome-help repository for Gus’ help site
Done 15:25 UK