2017-08-22 Tuesday Team Meeting
Remote: Seb, Josh, David, Liza, Chris, Emil, Will, J-m, Helen, Simon, Melissa, Dom, Mark, Riad, Balaji, Roger, Wilma, June
Accepting minutes from last meeting
Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)
Spaces
Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)
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Bio-Formats 5.6.1: external contributions, ImageJ, netcdf
- outstanding TODOs for patch release
- external contributions looking good. E.g. CellProfiler, Bitplane IMARIS and pyramid support, Allen Institute.
- Netcdf dependency update for IMARIS
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TIFF tiling benchmark
- Using 5.6.0 with latest changes
- Perf issues with writing large number of tiles 16k * 16k image with 16x16 tiles.
- Need to find Java bottleneck
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OME Files Python: CentOS 7, GCC
- Python bindings - CentOS 7 outstanding issues. Building binding natively
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Bio-Formats 5.6.1: external contributions, ImageJ, netcdf
Metadata (Josh)
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prod43 data testing (metadata done before Eleanor left)
- Testing yesterday - minor code issues but no metadata issues. Could release
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datasets status
- Getting novel formats from authors.
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notebooks status
- Moving code from notebooks to IDR.py repository
- Feedback welcome
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days off, etc.
- Simon away soon.
- Others want to ‘jump in’? E.g. dataset submission -> publish
- Seb: new meeting time: 11:30 UK on Fridays
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prod43 data testing (metadata done before Eleanor left)
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- Server-side performance blockers in progress
- Moving plates can be slower but tricky to reproduce
- Twice as slow in worst case
- https://trello.com/c/8aRu1RV4/238-slower-chgrp2
- JM: aim for end of first week of September for release
- ‘demo’ OMERO.web issue - failing to reproduce in docker
Outreach - Petr to Dusseldorf at end of month - will use their server
Other releases/upgrades:
Figure -
Iviewer - pixel intensity shape stats. Poor performance from ROI service.
new website (Seb)
security pages migration from www-legacy. New template prepared
- Goal to do migration next week.
- Helen - porting pages. Formatting issues…
- Liza - will fix formatting when done
Conf call minutes? Make gdoc read-only public available with link from web-site
- Any objections?
- Chris: discoverability lost in gdocs?
- Josh: google will index pages if public.
Need Bio and Picture from Riad
Sysadmin (current board and recent PRs)
Josh: /ome outage. Any issues noticed, please speak up
Fires?
Glencoe Update (Chris)
- PRs open: integer colour fixes, rendering engine,
- Memoizer improvements in prep
- Image region microservice with embedded rendering engine going live (nice)!
- React.js licensing discussions - avoid using for now
AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
- Chris in Dundee on Monday