2014-07-29 Tuesday Team Meeting
Attending: Dundee: Jean-Marie, Kenny, Simon, Petr, Mark, Colin, Ola, Dominik, Roger, Andrew, Will, Balaji, Simone Remote: Kelli, Mark H, Seb B, Blazej, Ian, Douglas, Curtis
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Project Status (15 minutes max)
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Mainline (5++ minutes) - 14:29 UK
- artifactory stress testing went well
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release plan
- code PRs ready for merging
- tiny last-minute help text PR from Sebastien B
- couple of Bio-Formats PRs
- hope to be ready to release by around 1600 today
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release testing tomorrow on 5.0.3 board
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octopus latest, maybe Windows servers
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Kenny: Windows server available
- currently has recommended versions of prerequisites
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Sebastien B: may want to set up problematic nd2 files on it
- Balaji: run nd2 job (compare czi)? Kenny: squig not mounted
- Petr: Python / Ice version testing, combinations?
- Jean-Marie: in testing deployments, good to test that search is working
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Kenny: Windows server available
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octopus latest, maybe Windows servers
- stand-up is release board, no PR review
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Roger: file formats testing?
- Jean-Marie: not so much this time
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Mark: do we test at all on server with minimum/lowest version number prerequisites?
- Sebastien/Kenny: not at present
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Kenny: would integration tests be sufficient?
- Jean-Marie: features like search not adequately covered
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Mainline (5++ minutes) - 14:29 UK
Consortium Update (5 minutes) - 14:44 UK
- Sebastien B: migration to git completed
- Ian: Yuriy’s OPT data is going into OMERO okay, rendering next
- Ian: after 5.0.3 will ask about writing SPW
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Douglas: had good meeting regarding Mathematica / Bio-Formats
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Mathematica looks to be a good learning tool for non-programmers, will give it a go
- cost-effective against image analysis alternatives
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Mathematica looks to be a good learning tool for non-programmers, will give it a go
- Curtis: Johannes leaving LOCI, returning to Germany, still consulting for LOCI
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Curtis: about to release MATLAB scripting language for ImageJ (using MCL)
- Douglas: also octave?
- Curtis: probably not yet, but may be possible with effort, especially with feedback
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Simone: helping with distributed feature calculation
- working on issue with running on many images, possibly depends on Java version
- Jean-Marie: basically following intended plan? Simone: yes
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Simone: working on having OMERO (perhaps just managed repository) use HDFS paths
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needed to update path.py for pluggable backend for extension
- Unicode also an issue, so needed UTF-8 encoding / decoding in pydoop
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Jean-Marie: presentation with project status update in a couple of weeks?
- Simone: perhaps, depending on progress; moving well, though
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needed to update path.py for pluggable backend for extension
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:58 UK
- New board Outreach to replace Conferences g.doc. Work in progress
- New board Community feedback. Work in progress
Done 15:00 UK