2016-01-26 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Will, Dominik, Simon, June, Petr, Ola, Mark, Roger, Simone, Helen, Jean-Marie, Harald, Balaji, Chris, Remote: Sebastien, Josh, Ian, Eleanor, Jason, Gus, Colin, Kelli, Stick, Andreas, Wilma, Melissa, David, Emil,
Welcome to Harald!
Agenda - 2:30pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces
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Mainline (J-m)
- Progress with bug fixing etc.
- Re-started work on Ice 3.6, but not for 5.2.2.
- Still a fair bit to do, but progress better than before
- Josh: downloads issue?
- Ola: Opened deployment PR. Docs changes tomorrow.
- Problem with high speed broadband killing workers (gunicorn bug)
- Should be OK for 5.2.2
- Balaji BF 5.1.8 PRs rebased
- Discuss with Seb when to start release process
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Model (Sebastien)
- Mark: folder PRs open for Bio-Formats and OMERO
- Folders in Model PR; imported first OME-TIFF! (Mark)
- Seb: Gus started mockups for client - meeting tomorrow to discuss 5.3.0 milestone
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Metadata (Josh)
- new metadata52 build system coming online
- Josh: rebases are ongoing from previous 5.1 branch
- Few PRs open. Builds running, Tests passing mostly etc.
- PRs also being rebased to 5.1 for Glencoe
- Simon - planning 30TB move to EBI, docker work, openstack cloud pony.openmicroscopy.org
- “The Cellmorph” dataset EMBL in progress
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Mainline (J-m)
Other releases/upgrades:
- Figure (not working on this currently)
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FLIMfit/OPT (Ian) Move to CI system in Australia. Waiting for date to present work to super-resolution meeting in London.
- Simon: progress on super-resolution format? No. Using existing formats.
- Jason: HDF5 format (biophysical journal)? Yes. Looking at support / import of it.
- Jason: Mass-spec? Ian - pulled data from JM’s sample, written to OME-TIFF
- Questions about how to store the data - modulo along C? etc?
- 400 channels - Slow in Insight (won’t work in web).
- JM: how to generate thumbnails. E.g. T projection? C projection?
- ImageJ
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Learning
- Jason: Gianluigi’s team using openseadragon, with region annotations, integrated into Moodle (teaching platform/VLE). https://github.com/crs4/ome_seadragon/
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Sysadmin
- Tuned monitoring last week, less noisy, some warnings suppressed.
- Progress monitoring, “artifactory stuff”
- Slack testing
- Josh: Sysadmin board cleaned up.
- Plan to have Jenkins set up servers on demand
Glencoe Update (Chris) - first deploys of pathviewer to OMERO plus customers and opensource OMERO users. - Couple of PRs to add configuration. - Docs on how to distribute OMERO.web plugins (not just code) - Backporting metadata changes to 5.1 (Emil).
Report from Jason
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good signs from funders.
- BF long term funding. IDR looking good.
- Users’ meeting not in Paris this year. Possibly in Dundee.
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good signs from funders.
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
- slack feedback/requests (anyone else?)
- Josh - Adium is dying, support for next OSX?
- Simon: it’s awesome! Helen: thumbs up.
- Ola: IRC client for Mac? Josh: IRC cloud? Adium for now.
- Josh: can link IRC and Slack chats (can’t see who is in room).
- Chris: complaint about slack - presence on slack is transient. Status away/idle etc.
- This is why Glencoe doesn’t use it.
- Josh: status even less clear on mobile “online always”
- Josh: get into habit of messaging “away” etc when not listening.
- Ian: search logs by date? (Josh: start a search ‘begin:’ or ‘after:’)
- Jason: jabber support for mobile is bad
- Josh: try standup on Thursday with Slack