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2016-04-19 Tuesday Team Meeting

Dundee: Petr, Mark, Gus, June, Roger, Simone, Helen, Jean-Marie, Ola, Balaji, Simon, Will Remote: Kelli, Sebastien, Colin, Josh M, Wilma, Ian, Andrea, Emil

Agenda - 2:30pm Start

(five-minute setup delay, our apologies)

  1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

    • accepted
  2. Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)

    1. Spaces - 14:36 UK

      1. Mainline (J-M)
        • still some to-do's for Windows deprecation
        • Ice 3.6 testing looking good so far
          • Josh M: now OpenStack infrastructure for testing, may be working (various problems, also dealing with beluga crashes)
            • Josh: not as far as release process yet
            • Jean-Marie: not working yet, but working on multi-artifacts
            • Jean-Marie: not committed to OpenStack for this longer-term
        • Will: right-panel performance improvement (loading less eagerly and as JSON)
          • Josh: JSON means we can cache?
            • Ola: yes
            • Will: but couldn't HTML?
            • Josh: weirdness with group changes, etc.
            • Will: cache invalidation issue
      2. Model (Sebastien)
        • demo on Thursday morning will be a good summary of current state, focused on setup for showing scaling/performance; probably tag regions tomorrow
      3. Metadata (Josh M)
        1. Pains of large scale data transfer
          • now got access to EBI systems though could be faster
          • plan to get OMERO 5.2 OpenStack IDR running at Dundee then transfer to EBI
          • value / timeline of OMERO 5.3 for IDR to be discussed
        2. Getting to production (take 2)
    2. Other releases/upgrades - 14:44 UK

      1. Figure (Will)
        • build tagged, release board is prepped, not many changes since last version; discussing with Petr
          • Jean-Marie: remove cap on pillow?
          • Will: yes
      2. FLIMfit/OPT (Ian)
        • FLIMfit 4.11 ready for pre-release testing now BF 5.1.9 is available.
        • May require some time from Seb/Petr.
          • Jean-Marie: Gus and Balaji may be able to help
          • Ian: should be fairly easy to do
        • I'm under pressure to get this out ASAP in order to work full-time on super-resolution
          • Sebastien: won't be able to set up downloads before Friday
          • Ian: pencil all this in for Friday?
          • Jean-Marie: sounds good
      3. Learning
      4. Sysadmin (Josh)
        • working on nginx, look out for weird network issues
        • move problematic things to OpenStack
        • nightshade too will have to move, sooner is better
      5. ome smuggler (Andrea)
        • client proxy setup actually works
        • have deployed on a few workstations that were used for testing
          • testing included unplugging power, network, for recovery
          • found some bugs to fix but largely good
        • will fix, test, upgrade to OMERO 5.2, check how it is going over second half of May
        • if all goes well, will go live on around eighty machines
        • Simon: live demo at OME users' meeting?
        • Josh: working with Andrea on session issues
          • may add a configuration property to allow normal users to create sessions
          • trello cards about CLI tokens
            • Sebastien: some tricky design issues there, may thus need discussion soon
            • Andrea: discuss later this week?
              • Sebastien: next week?
              • Andrea: good to coordinate to avoid duplicated/wasted work
            • Josh: need to add Andrea to Trello
          • question of if single-sign-on would help
    3. Glencoe Update (Emil) - 14:57 UK

      • nothing new
  3. AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:57 UK

    • June: 42 registered for users' meeting, 29 externals, few more in pipeline
      • program is on website; Helen's been working on it

Done 14:59 UK

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