2017-09-05

Dundee: Will, Kenny, Petr, Dominik, Jean-Marie, Mark, Helen, June, Balaji, Riad

Remote: Sebastien, Chris, Roger, Josh, Liza, Andreas, David, Wilma, Emil, Melissa

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Timelines

(2-3 minutes each)

A. Spaces

• Files/Formats

  • Bio-Formats 5.7.0 released yesterday

    • Community Sync-ing already - CellProfiler etc
  • Working on reviewing all the open contributions for upcoming

    patch releases

  • OME Files: ongoing work on platform support for C7 and OME Files

    Python

    • Done by end of week

• Metadata

  • Seb: new data received needing new readers, etc. e.g. Mass Spec,

    Light-sheet data

  • prod43: feedback from users re: “Demo” user name. Suggestions

    for rename?

  • Using 0.4.x to

    prepare prod44 work. Notebooks etc.

  • Upcoming ITR work in Gothenburg. Neubias.

    • Promoting useful tools
  • Use cases for working with millions+ ROIs/Shapes

• OMERO 5.4.0

  • Upcoming 5.3.4

    • Fixes and BF version bump 5.5.3 (czi issue included)

    • Aim to release on Thursday

    • Web-site prep in progress

    • Deploy locally on nightshade before release

    • Seb: need to review release workflow - re: new website

  • 5.4

    • Fixing remaining issue: tables, delete, new roles

      • Support for older pytables.

    • Fixing web installation and working on docs

      • Discussing: reduce number of platforms supported.

    • Bump to BF 5.7

    • Code freeze tomorrow (except bugs/tests)

• Outreach

  • Cambridge workshop (December), preparing publicity posters

  • Lots of feedback from Petr’s visit to Dusseldorf

    • Requests for performance testing / benchmarking

    • More flexible groups permissions / sharing / deep copy

B. Other releases/upgrades:

• Figure

  • nothing

• iViewer

  • Possible release 0.3 with some features (save as, save

    projected) before 5.4

  • In progress: multi images view. Compare images / channels etc.

• New website

  • Helen: release preparation.

  • Prototypes for new pages - see trello board

• Sysadmin

  • Drop ux@ & web-team@ email aliases - prevent spam forwarding

  • Google analytics (Josh) - All team members added

    • Need cookies warning for web users

  • 5.3.4 Nightshade/Ansible/Infra-testpr work (Kenny)

C. Glencoe Update (Chris)

• Working on Microservices

• Tackling masks - improving efficiency with OMERO.web

  • Big Image masks can be large - need to handle multi-resolution

• B-F updates coming…

1. Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)

1. AOB

(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)