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2017-08-29 Tuesday Team Meeting

Remote: Will, Jean-Marie, Sebastien, Helen, Jason, Josh, June, Dominik, Mark, Wilma, Riad, Andreas, David, Balaji, Roger, Melissa, Liza

  1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

  2. Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)

    1. Spaces

      1. Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)

        • BF 5.6.1 promoted to BF 5.7.0.
          • Few fixes from community
          • Core metadata improvements justify major release
          • Release in September
        • OME-Files. Roger working on boost.
          • Full platform support
        • Demo server hanging with CZI file import. OMERO 5.3.2
          • Try to get fix in. Upgrade Bio-Formats to 5.5.3? Or wait for 5.4.0?
      2. Metadata (Josh)

        • patch for faster IDR annotation deletion looking good
        • prod43 (data) release status (no code changes)
        • prod44 - don’t have data yet. Different modalities, FLIM etc
        • further data-in steps.
        • populate_metadata testing (test44)
        • notebooks
      3. OMERO 5.4.0

        • DB patch under review
        • Web installation doc - clarify install with/without OMERO.server
        • concurrency performance testing looking good
        • Use IDR DB
        • PR to fix closing of services on 404
      4. Outreach

        • Petr to Dusseldorf today
    2. Other releases/upgrades:

      1. Figure -
      2. Iviewer - Rough release date estimate?
        • ROI stats PR open for OMERO. In for 5.4 hopefully
      3. new website
        • Work on Citation page and Secvuln pages
        • Jason: citing OME: don’t need to mention Perl OME server.
        • Feedback today please
      4. Sysadmin (current board and recent PRs)
        1. Memory usage on openstack
          • Too much running. GPFS being killed
          • Fix to kill VMS (GPFS should be OK)
        2. NFS outages
        3. Usage of idr2-slot3 / minke. Performance testing.
          • manually updating scripts now, but can add options later...
    3. Glencoe Update (Chris)

      • Emil: Rendering engine and integer colours PRs merged
      • Chris working on memoizer
  3. AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

    • Various funding proposals being submitted over next 3 months
  4. Presentation: Roger usage stats (15mins)

    • Mostly Java 1.8 (96%) and Python 2.7 now
    • Ice 3.6 now about 50% - Ice 5.3 in older products
    • OS: Windows 50%, Mac OS 30%, Linux 20% (increasing)
    • OMERO 5.3 (April 2017) still fewer hits than OMERO 5.2
    • Ice 3.5 (OMERO 5.3) usage small, probably internal (seen before release)
      • External Ice 3.5 very small - can drop support.
    • OS: 55% of Linux is Debian/Ubuntu
    • OMERO.server 98% Linux. Other Mac usage probably internal
    • CentOS 6 very small now. Not used at all for OMERO.web deployment
    • JRS:
        1. what would it take to expand Bio-Formats upgrade to other implementations, i.e., Matlab.
        1. For a few of these would be great to get the raw numbers so we can plot in more usable, viewable form.
      • re: killing offer versions of dependencies for OMERO 5.4. We should ask for feedback, announce and then give people chance for at least 4-6 weeks of updates.
    • JAM:
      • Invert order {agent,requirement} → {requirement,agent}
      • Correlate OMERO.web and OMERO.server
        • RL: problem of infrequent restarts for server applications without periodic pings
        • RL: could offer admin notifications of updates
        • MTBC: perhaps ping “uptime” on shutdown?
    • Roger: DB is 150 GB on disk. 70 million hits. 10 GB per index.
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