2015-03-10 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Petr, Mark, Gus, Jean-Marie, Simon, Emil, Colin, Dominik, Helen, Ola, Balaji, Roger, Will Remote: Andrew, Sebastien B, Chris, Ian, Kelli, Josh M, Mark H, Melissa, Stick, Wilma, Sebastien S, Curtis, Jason
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Core (incl. CI & QA) - 14:30 UK
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Josh: Branches
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Rendering: no change (none planned)
- added stuff to database, other work pushed to 5.1.1
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Will: change in rendering engine API?
- Josh M: didn’t yet, but would be easy, should probably add them
- Josh M: no look-up table support
- Josh M: adding methods to the API isn’t a breaking change
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ome-bio-formats-cpp: cleanup, docs
- main cleanup (compat) is open now.
- Units: C++ PR now open; should be in the realm of minor adjustments now with the exception of deciding on which conversions are "supported".
- Downloads: finishing group & size proposals now that API is settled. (1-2 days to finish)
- Mail: unification of previous work, configuration improvements, Niko request (1-2 days to finish)
- Stats & masks: PRs being tested.
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Anyone else for largish items?
- no large to-do’s
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Rendering: no change (none planned)
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Josh: Code freeze
- breaking changes more or less in
- Sebastien B: what gets tagged?
- so when are we at the point when remaining 5.1.0 work is just minor bug-fixing?
- then is last development milestone, then tags after that are RCs
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Josh: Testing
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After that, next order of business an RC, and on that note.... Over to Petr
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now in week three of testing
- rendering ready to test; Gus and Balaji to work through scenario
- Petr will work through FIJI / ImageJ workflows on Windows
- Roger: C++ showinf and viewer ready for testing
- will need discussion of download restrictions
- Jean-Marie: is looking at XSLT to fix tests marked as broken
- Jean-Marie: add your name to cards if you can help out Petr with testing
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now in week three of testing
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Josh: MapAnnotation/indexing: performance testing gone wild.
- Simon’s large-scale testing indicated performance issues and indexer problems
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Automated tests: must get green
- those not actively working on branches needed for RC should focus on failing tests
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After that, next order of business an RC, and on that note.... Over to Petr
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Docs - unclaimed cards for 5.1.0 - Data model, Default group, various breaking changes etc.
- Helen: please look at 5.1.0 column and volunteer for what you can
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Gus: critical help docs changes probably done in two weeks’ time
- after that, various screenshots to update, etc.
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Josh: Branches
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:58 UK
- just getting open PRs into 5.1.0
Virtual Microscope/teaching (Ola) - 14:58 UK
- contact from Dundee learning centre, will review OMERO for possible use
FLIMfit/OPT (Ian) - 14:59 UK
- Working with Petr on pre-release testing of FLIMfit 4.8.0 - RC available from https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/flimfit/4.8.0/artifacts/
- New OMERO UI tool for consideration for more general distribution
Bio-Formats large file sets (Sebastien B) - 14:59 UK
- ongoing testing
Other consortium timelines (5 minutes) - 15:00 UK
- Curtis: upgraded OMERO server
- Curtis: ran into some issues with importing OME-TIFF files with bad planes, consulting with Melissa
- Mark H: worked on docker image for FIJI
- Will: working on OMERO.figure TIFF export
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 15:02 UK
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Adding your own PRs
- been going well
- remember also to re-list when necessary
- note that GitHub doesn’t show new pushes to closed PRs until the PR is reopened
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IRC use
- Josh M: more usable/promotable when IRC logging is in place
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Will: how to handle questions that can’t be immediately answered?
- Josh M: direct them to other community resources, lists or forums; IRC questions do not get added to stand-up
- Josh M: IRC works best for easy, quick answers
- Jason: want to avoid adding burden
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Curtis: can be a timesaver, but suffices if sometimes there are people there who sometimes answer
- very helpful with ImageJ to be able to link to chatlogs
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workshops for Paris
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speaker suggestions very welcome
- Jason: they don’t have to be using our software so long as their work is of interest to us
- Jean-Marie: cards broken into three rooms as last year
- Jason: would like to get an outline of planned workshops by mid-April or so
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speaker suggestions very welcome
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17/03 lunch OME and Glencoesoftware teams (offered by Glencoesoftware)
- Jean-Marie: ASAP let Wilma know if you can’t come, certainly this week
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Dundee: remember to note ASAP in today’s stand-up AOB if you are coming into work on Friday 13th
- Jean-Marie: June needs to know by tomorrow
- Jason: assurances given that will be able to return to normal office on Monday
- Chris: given electrical work, best to unplug everything by Thursday night
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Adding your own PRs
Done 15:18 UK