2015-07-14 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Mark C, Dominik, Ola, Balaji, Colin, Petr, Kenny, Gus, June, Helen, Simon Remote: Sebastien B, Josh M, Eleanor, Ian, Wilma, Emil, Roger, Melissa, Mark H, Douglas
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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Decoupling: merged Bio-Formats! Gateway next. Upcoming: C++, VirtualBox, Scripts, etc.
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Sebastien B: working on VirtualBox, probably done soon
- virtualbox image to be produced using released OMERO
- Josh M: has a branch that drops the scripts submodule
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Sebastien B: working on VirtualBox, probably done soon
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H11S Metadata: build system update.
- Josh M: Simon did CI work, now working on getting C++ built into it, robot builds still to do
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5.1.3 (Josh M)
- OMERO freeze coming, now only small Bio-Formats PRs please (docs, C++ still)
- Will’s, Jean-Marie’s PRs may get pushed to 5.1.4
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5.1.4 addition: Stats
- Josh M: maybe some work coming on registry, PostgreSQL, etc.
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Decoupling: merged Bio-Formats! Gateway next. Upcoming: C++, VirtualBox, Scripts, etc.
Glencoe Update (Emil) - 14:38 UK
- file annotation PR + populate metadata
- probably more PRs coming from JB
Repositories - 14:39 UK
- Virtual Microscope/teaching: nothing
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IDR Project
- Kenny: cabling was scheduled to arrive Monday, so may be movement again on hardware
- Eleanor: one screen in, one imminent, couple more coming
- Eleanor: EBI meeting, various topics -- ontology annotations, etc.
FLIMfit/OPT (Ian) - 14:39 UK
- work ongoing on FLIMfit tutorial
- assisted by recent changes in Bio-Formats
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aiming to release Bio-Formats more frequently than OMERO?
- Josh M: yes, at some point
Bio-Formats large file sets (Sebastien B) - 14:42 UK
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difficulties generating large OME-TIFFs, hitting bottlenecks; gathering information
- can Bio-Formats C++ help?
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difficulties generating large OME-TIFFs, hitting bottlenecks; gathering information
Other consortium timelines (5 minutes) - 14:43 UK
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Mark H: conference planning, would be good to know about Bio-Formats / OMERO workshop
- Josh M: see Trello card; first week of September
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Mark H: conference planning, would be good to know about Bio-Formats / OMERO workshop
Update on Java Gateway status (Dominik) - 14:45 UK
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classes moved from Insight to Blitz, should now be able to use various methods from the Blitz JAR
- mostly working well
- perhaps gateway code can move into omero_client or some other JAR so as to entail rather fewer dependencies; to discuss with Jean-Marie
- large OMERO gateway class still in Insight, but progressively moving methods
- still to extract UI components from Insight
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Simon: unify Python & Java gateways?
- Dominik: would be good to; perhaps discuss with Will
- Josh M: need to discuss timeline for freezing gateway API
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classes moved from Insight to Blitz, should now be able to use various methods from the Blitz JAR
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:52 UK
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Roger: how much Ice 3.6 support to offer for 5.1.3?
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perhaps offer artifacts but explicitly less/not supported and tested?
- just under “other components” page, not downloads landing page
- Simon: easy to get Ice 3.6 working with Anaconda
- Josh M: very important to make the 5.1.3 deadline
- Sebastien B: with Ice 3.5 even after testing and release there was a Windows bug and those artifacts were withdrawn
- Sebastien B: need to be clear what is to be tested (platforms, etc.) to feel sufficiently confident, also how much time or resources must be invested?
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Mark C: how obvious would Ice 3.6 bugs be?
- Josh M: probably fairly, given certain platforms/combinations, which can’t all be tested for 5.1.3
- summary seemed: can consider offering unsupported artifacts and test as we can, but do not let 5.1.3 slip
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perhaps offer artifacts but explicitly less/not supported and tested?
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Roger: how much Ice 3.6 support to offer for 5.1.3?
Done 15:03 UK