2017-01-31 Tuesday Team Meeting
Dundee: Kenny, Helen, Roger, Simon, June, Jean-Marie, Balaji, Will, Petr, Ola, Remote: Dom, Josh, Mark, Seb, Simone, Melissa, Emil, Wilma,
Agenda - 2:00pm Start
Accepting minutes from last meeting
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces
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Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
- 5.3.3 largely done. Bugs and fixes etc. Ship ASAP
- David leading release process. Hopefully Thursday
- 5.3.4 organising backlog
- Benchmarking. Roger working on JACE on different platforms
- OME File 0.3.0 2nd phase custom annotations starting soon
- Galveston meeting - positive feedback on Python bindings, Metadata annotations, etc.
- Try to get regular feedback from users
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Metadata (Josh)
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Networking issues around demo33. New embassy cloud upcoming.
- EBI want to migrate to new openstack
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Focusing on re-annotating (i.e. populate_metadata)
- Working with map-ann keys as primary keys is problematic
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Larger level priorities: importing, analyzing, discovery
- Next weeks/months. Maintain status quo of infrastructure
- Hook up other tools to work with IDR data.
- Human protein atlas HPA data new dataset.
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Networking issues around demo33. New embassy cloud upcoming.
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OMERO 5.3.0
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New Roles (Mark)
- now added all admin privileges planned for 5.3.0, listed in card comments
- also prefixed light administrator privilege names in Experimenter configuration
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now reviewing "user management" role to,
- allow group leaders previous powers, like create user in their group
- prevent privilege elevation
- Web api - wells done. Cleanup / stabilise
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Jai Image I/O fork problematic for OMERO on Java 9 - server won’t start
- Need to plan (not for 5.3.0 but aim for 5.3.x) gdoc proposal etc.
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New Roles (Mark)
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Outreach
- IDR meeting end of march. Jason to invite..?
- Cambridge training June 29th/30th
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Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
Other releases/upgrades:
- Figure
- ImageJ
- iViewer - ROI editing review (trello card)
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Sysadmin
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Josh: Rundeck users?
- 24 servers on Beluga, now 7
- Balaji: 3 (1 active, 1 for travel/outreach)
- Petr: have some, but not ‘active’. Valuable??
- Seb: need space for performance tests with nothing else on it
- Josh: Use docker on Beluga, just need to turn other servers OFF.
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Kenny: VMWare strategy
- Discuss with LSC what OMERO VMware cluster spec.
- Comparable with openstack
- Where to move nightshade?
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Josh: Rundeck users?
- Smuggler (Montpellier)
Glencoe Update (Chris)
- Thanks David & Seb for fixing 64-bit TIFFs.
- Design issue for read-only & scalability
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)