2016-08-02 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Dominik, Mark C, Jean-Marie, Simon, Helen, June, Ola, Will Remote: Sebastien B, Andreas, Colin, Eleanor, Melissa, Wilma, David, Liza, Chris
Agenda - 2:00pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces - 14:01 UK
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Bio-Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
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released C++ OME-Files 0.2.0 yesterday
- consuming 2016-06 model
- next to consume all OME-TIFF flavors
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Jean-Marie: added to web stats table, what more to record downloads / usage?
- Sebastien: should be able to get much downloads information when awstats resurrected
- Sebastien: C++ code doesn't contact registry or do upgrade check
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freezing Bio-Formats code, RC1 tagging at end of week
- if you want a PR in, open it today!
- next to work on docs
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released C++ OME-Files 0.2.0 yesterday
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Metadata
- Eleanor: finished rearranging map annotations, moving more information into them and tidying up
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Eleanor: managed to get an urgent dataset into production, now waiting on DOI; more datasets to do, with publication dates coming
- will add social media cards for new IDR content
- Simon: working on IDR hardware, storage upgrade; may return to bulk annotations
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OMERO 5.3.0 (Jean-Marie)
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OMERO 5.2.5 released, secvuln fix rebased to 5.3.0
- Sebastien: do not reveal in public PR review details of actual exploit
- plenty of work on lookup table code
- fixing bugs in script system / repo
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OMERO 5.2.5 released, secvuln fix rebased to 5.3.0
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Outreach
- Jean-Marie: Balaji prepared a couple of videos (Fiji, R, etc.); will provide links to Helen
- Jean-Marie: Jason reports good feedback for videos posted from users' meeting presentations / workshops
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Bio-Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
Other releases/upgrades - 14:11 UK
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Figure
- Will: preparing for tomorrow's workshop (10:30)
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Jean-Marie: record via Zoom?
- Will: sure, if somebody could set up; may not be the most slick viewing experience
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ImageJ
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Jean-Marie: Balaji prepared video, see above
- macro workflow still needs some improvement
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Jean-Marie: Balaji prepared video, see above
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Learning
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Kenny: needs secvuln upgrade?
- Ola: no, no private data
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Kenny: needs secvuln upgrade?
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Sysadmin (Kenny)
- Simon working on OpenStack
- improved contact with SLS-IT, regular meetings planned
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Ola: okay to have OpenStack help with OMERO [learning] upgrades, etc.?
- Kenny: not yet confident enough with OpenStack for production
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Website redevelopment/redesign (Liza)
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needs Jekyll build, dev environment help from Sebastien
- for initial versions will be more wireframed than real production
- have been asking Helen re. content and using Trello to ping with questions
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needs Jekyll build, dev environment help from Sebastien
- Smuggler (Montpellier)
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Figure
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:17 UK
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reasonable short-term solution for OMERO scripts, web, notifications, will open PR and get feedback
- issues re. clients handling notifications and service failures
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Jean-Marie: for notifications, need to improve exception granularity?
- Chris: more an infrastructure (incl. UX) issue with handling catastrophic failures, clients become wholly unusable
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Ola: main issue is status is asynchronous jobs?
- Chris: yes
- Ola: issue on forum with dying web session
- Chris: more the reverse: OOMs on scripts, server restarts, etc.: problems with the actual jobs
- also busy with secvuln work
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reasonable short-term solution for OMERO scripts, web, notifications, will open PR and get feedback
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:21 UK
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Jean-Marie: now Kelli has moved on, suggested social media content should go to Helen / on to social media Trello board
- Helen: content submissions much appreciated
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Jean-Marie: social media meetings back to 10:00 UK?
- Helen: yes
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Jean-Marie: now Kelli has moved on, suggested social media content should go to Helen / on to social media Trello board
Done 14:23 UK