2016-09-20 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Petr, Dominik, Simon, Mark, Gus, Will, Jean-Marie, Ola, Roger, Kenny, Chris, Simone, Jason, Balaji Remote: Helen, Josh, Seb, Eleanor, Andreas, Wilma, Melissa, David, Liza
Remember: Agenda must be complete (with estimated times) on the day before the meeting. Any additions after that must go at the bottom (AOCB)
Agenda - 2:00pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces
Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
- C++ Files release 0.2.1
- Covers all OME-TIFF spec versions
- BF 5.3.0 planning ongoing
- Will present plan at end of month: 4th October
- E.g. tiling, repo restructuring etc.
- Progress on opening data repo for outside community
- Formalising access / licensing
- Jason: unsupported types? Modulo?
- Roger: yes, can read files but not reading modulo annotations yet
Metadata (Josh)
- Working on 2 different demo versions - getting harder - needs multiple branches
- Demo2 (in production) with mapr ui.
- 0.2.1 for Big Data in Heidelburg
- Demo3 mid October.
- Mapr UI updated with feedback
- With Jupyter notebook
- Chris: where are most changes? Web? Server? Scripts?
- Josh: few on BF, most in web UI.
- Not so many changes remaining that are not backported to OMERO 5.3. Dev.
- Chris: decoupling of web from server will simplify this.
- Josh: Right-hand panel needs to be more plugin-enabled. Happy to see web plugins & cli plugins decoupled to new repositories.
- Chris: Lots of JCB-dataviewer-specific code in web image viewer, instead of plugin points.
- Eleanor: updating existing and starting handling 2 new datasets.
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- This will include support for re-named web apps ‘omero_figure’
- Delay by a day, to allow more testing of figure etc.
- Release focussed on services cleanup / fix memory leaks
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- Will start work on SPW grid view soon.
- Web-API progressing
- Length of name for Screen/Plate/Image etc. Limit is 255 needs to be increased
- Chris: As Roger says, no advantage for 255 limit vv ‘text’ field in Postgres
- Mark: NB: simple query could give very large response.
- JM: New role for ‘admin lite’ e.g. uploading scripts etc.
- JM: Ola’s Devspace on OpenStack work makes 5.2.6 release easier.
- https://github.com/openmicroscopy/infrastructure/pull/114
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- Petr and JM to Galway on Thursday, Graeme on Friday
- Seb & Josh Sunday EMBL presentation
- Heidelburg again (Jason & Josh)
- EMBL training in November, bio. + medicine
- GRE symposium - Jason preparing talk
- PiCLS symposium - poster
- 2nd Microscopy congress London
Other releases/upgrades:
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Figure
- Will: still waiting on the renaming & pip installability
- J-m: perhaps a version 1.3 out to work with 5.0 etc. before breaking backwards compatibility.
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ImageJ
- IJ-OMERO repo activity from German users.
- Learning
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Sysadmin.
- Seabass back, fully Ansible provisioned
- Help docs mirrored, scripts to restore downloads
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Website redevelopment/redesign (Liza)
- Edits for About section
- Project goals need updating
- Smuggler (Montpellier)
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Figure
Glencoe Update (Chris)
- Search bridge discussion this morning. Website docs could be updated
- Potential to solve some IDR use-cases
- Few PRs for 5.2.6.
- Updated several systems to 5.2.5 - finding a few historical js issues.
- CellProfiler interaction / discussion continuing
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
- Jason: SPI2 last week - Discussions with CellProfiler team.
- Gabriella presented IDR - well received.
- Several other presentations in August - all good
- Bioimage informatics meeting 2nd week of October.
- Want to present IDR with Jupyter
- Several coming calls.
- Met with Douglas and Jay Copeland. Doing well & busy!
- Discussed academic collaborations etc