2016-10-25 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Will, Petr, Mark, Gus, Jean-Marie, Balaji, June, Simon, Roger, Ola, Helen, Simone Remote: Jason, Andreas, Sebastien, Chris, Wilma, Liza, David, Josh B, Melissa, Emil
Agenda - 2:00pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- accepted
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces - 14:00 UK
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Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
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good progress in decoupling low-level components out of Bio-Formats and pushing artifacts to maven central
- aiming to tag later this week
- API changes coming next
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good progress in decoupling low-level components out of Bio-Formats and pushing artifacts to maven central
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Metadata (Simon)
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testing next version of IDR over coming days, will discuss with Petr
- Ola: testing phase a couple of weeks ago went well
- Jason: IDR received well at presentations
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testing next version of IDR over coming days, will discuss with Petr
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OMERO 5.3.0 (Jean-Marie)
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soon merging Roger's PR to fix issues with Ice 3.6.3
- to backport to 5.2
- Helen: would also love to include sysadmin docs from anybody for how to migrate server from Windows to Linux
- Ola working on release jobs for various components
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soon merging Roger's PR to fix issues with Ice 3.6.3
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Outreach (Jean-Marie)
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Scottish Microscopy Group registration deadline
- November 24, Heriot-Watt, could present poster
- will submit abstract, can probably substitute for whoever can go
- Balaji presenting at GRE symposium
- facility manager meeting coming early next year
- another meeting coming November 29, Simon's abstract to be reviewed
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Scottish Microscopy Group registration deadline
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Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
Other releases/upgrades - 14:10 UK
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Figure
- Jean-Marie: finalizing webapp push
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ImageJ
- Jean-Marie: various bugs/issues around Bio-Formats import/export
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Learning
- Ola: will write deployment playbook
- Jean-Marie: Christmas break may be a good maintenance window
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Sysadmin (Kenny)
- patching servers for new Linux kernel security vulnerability
- added more robot exclusions for web-prod
- replaced wildcard SSL certificate
- upgraded nightshade
- cleanup on storage for virtual machines
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Website redevelopment/redesign (Liza)
- wrapping up product section
- moving on to some graphics design work
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Helen may need help from team with content and navigation
- Jean-Marie: maybe involve, e.g., Michael or Ian as end users
- sysadmin / facility manager section will need review
- Smuggler (Montpellier)
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Figure
Glencoe Update (Chris) - 14:17 UK
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preparing for PathViewer release, both stable and 1.1
- related Python repository / packaging / versioning discussions
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JPEG-XR work largely done
- need to document installation of native dependencies
- work on OMERO.web for 5.3
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preparing for PathViewer release, both stable and 1.1
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled) - 14:20 UK
- Jason: please discuss soon if planning to take a large amount of leave at once and promptly add it to the calendar
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Jason: very important to keep annual leave paperwork straight so do keep to procedures, e.g., annual leave days and sick leave are treated very differently
- remember that other team members may be planning around what availability you have put on the calendar
Presentation on usage statistics by Roger - 14:26 UK
- could consider requiring Java 1.8 and Python 2.7
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maybe default downloads to Ice 3.6 for OMERO 5.3
- Simon: even require?
- CentOS 6 numbers coming soon
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Jean-Marie: could share analysis scripts? Would be useful to repeat.
- Sebastien: there is a registry repo
- Roger: could push SQL and R code to repo
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can offer stats differently summarized/filtered if can answer others' questions
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want to see breakdown by operating system
- Roger: have to try to map kernel version to distribution, hardly a perfect process
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want to see breakdown by operating system
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Chris: could move database onto server adequately provisioned for large queries
- also with PostgreSQL 9.6 for parallelized querying
- Roger: can also drop indices on main table and occasionally update materialized view
- Simon: could also spin up a large docker instance by need
Done 14:57 UK