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2014-10-21 Tuesday Team Meeting

Dundee: Mark, Simon, Chris, Kenny, Emil, Will, Jean-Marie, Simone, June, Blazej, Dominik, Petr, Ola, Helen Remote: Kelli, Seb B, Josh B, Melissa, Mark H, Ian, Curtis, Douglas, Wilma, Roger, Seb S, Jason (14:46), Stick

Agenda - 2:30pm Start

  1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

    • accepted
  2. Project Status (15 minutes max)

    1. Mainline (5 minutes) - 14:30 UK

      • Chris: Will has been working on resurrecting / improving Robot Framework testing for web
        • web bugs being fixed along the way
        • Seb B: new infrastructure for generating Robot Framework test configuration file for servers
          • will soon have the tests running on CI servers
      • Jean-Marie: units PRs back in breaking for now
      • Mark: on graphs/permissions, understanding and fixing the integration tests broken by the new code
    2. Glencoe Update (5 minutes) (Chris) - 14:37 UK

      • Andreas’ Unicode PR will soon be opened
      • hope to push branches for whole-fileset original file download via CLI, for discussion
      • Melissa: much work on file formats, including VSI
    3. Consortium Update (5 minutes) - 14:39 UK

      • Seb B: will be working on analysis at ROI level
      • Seb B: expected to move to a bigger OMERO server
      • Ian: attended super-resolution meeting
        • Simon: need to decide on format for storing intermediate results
        • Ian: common columns are x, y, z, intensity
      • Curtis: visit by ImageLib developers, last-minute API fixes, version 2 came out of beta; very productive
        • showed ImageLib developers SciJava, OPS
        • ImageJ2 prototype of subset of big-data viewer (SPIM)
        • difficulty of selecting appropriate viewer when opening scientific data
        • future work includes ImageJ-OMERO, ImageJ-OPS
        • Jason: timeline for us to look more closely at this work?
          • Curtis: probably concrete work worth looking at after January hackathon
      • Mark H: SCIFIO refactorings, new converters
      • Douglas: got a talk for the Cold Spring Harbor conference, will discuss
      • Simone: fixed some bugs with HDFS support in Bio-Formats, building with ant and maven, different byte orderings
        • difficulty with writing due to Bio-Formats TIFF writer assuming random access / seeking during write
        • Melissa: other formats will also need random access on write
        • leaving Dundee after next week, back to CRS4
  3. AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:56 UK

    1. zoom.us testing with remotes; Windows and Mac OS X users only (Emil, Kenny and Chris)
      • Chris: would be useful to have a good number of remotes remain for the test
    2. Blazej leaving OME Nov 14, thank you to the team for help. Will try to arrange smooth handover.

Done 14:58 UK

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