2016-08-30 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Dominik, Mark, Jean-Marie, Petr, Colin, Helen, June, Will, Simone, Jason, Chris Remote: Sebastien, Roger, Andreas, Josh M, Melissa, David, Wilma, Balaji, Emil, Ola, Liza
Agenda - 2:00pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces - 14:01 UK
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Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
- released BF 5.2.1 to patch regression, other regressions now reported
- OME-Files 0.2.1 to fully support OME-TIFF modalities
- discussing BF API changes (currently tiling)
- Gus, Helen, Mark looking at reworking OME Model pages and diagrams (see AOB)
- Mark: investigating how to add enumeration values to model in a somewhat non-breaking way
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Metadata (Josh)
- Simone kicking off feature generation for next big screen
- bringing demo-2 to new demo-3 with mapr as candidate for next production version
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Outreach (Jean-Marie)
- getting Galway workshop sorted
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attending CMSO workshop in Texas in January
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OMERO 5.3.0
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LUT demo/discussion (m3) (Jean-Marie/Dominik)
- "inert" concept introduced for "safer" uploads (LUTs vs scripts)
- Chris: could include LUT thumbnails BASE64-encoded in the script
- Chris: re. LUT naming collisions can help with CLI plugin wrapping scripting service and enforcing restrictions, could also generate LUT thumbnails
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Josh: installation/deployment-related repositories: how to move forward
- looking at separating server from web for m4
- PRs should be done this week
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LUT demo/discussion (m3) (Jean-Marie/Dominik)
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Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
Other releases/upgrades - 14:41 UK
- Figure
- ImageJ
- Learning
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Sysadmin (Kenny)
- rebuilt disks underneath seabass
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nightshade storage system upgraded
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Chris: outcome of database move?
- Kenny: replaced inter-volume symlink with rsync'd copy
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Chris: database backup (postgres data directory)?
- Kenny: nightly pg_dumps backed up, nothing special with synchronized data directory backup
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Chris: outcome of database move?
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Website redevelopment/redesign (Liza)
- working on team pages and links out to outside labs
- soon going on vacation awhile
- British/American English? answer: American
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Smuggler (Montpellier)
- new update being deployed that allows batch import
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:47 UK
- preparing for PathViewer release (omero-marshal, etc.)
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JPEG-XR project with Zeiss
- press release now out, blog post tomorrow
- Glencoe repositories reorganized, can see public PerkinElmer work on Bio-Formats and OMERO
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may have deployment/performance comments/advice coming for various real-world scenarios
- arising from experience with Linux upgrades etc.
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:51 UK
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Mark: data model diagram discussion on design issue 54
- comment this week so that we can keep the process moving
- note ideas and outstanding questions on Trello cards linked from comment
- June: soon off on vacation
- Jason: many invitations coming for speaking, training, etc., it's valuable activity, more team members welcome to volunteer for outreach
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Mark: data model diagram discussion on design issue 54
Workshop on Ansible by Josh - 14:58 UK