2017-09-26_

Dundee: Petr, Will, Mark, Roger, Helen, June, Dominik, Kenny, J-M, Balaji, Riad,

Remote: Josh, Wilma, Liza, Chris, David, Melissa, Andreas

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Timelines

(2-3 minutes each)

A. Spaces

• Files/Formats

  • Josh: note bfstandup items - to be looked at today/tomorrow

  • David: 5.7.1 release.

  • BDV reader progress. Discuss tomorrow’s meeting - decisions

    needed

• Metadata (Josh)

  • General server status - turning old systems off.

    • Prod42 backup kept

    • Spin up Prod44 next week

    • Start importing Light-sheet data - release ~ 2-3 weeks

      later

    • Iviewer activated on IDR

    • Activate OMERO.figure?

  • Datasets

  • ROIs!

    • Fixes for masks (from Glencoe)

    • Results from cyto-hack deep learning analysis.

  • Modulo, multi-view reconstruction (SPIM etc) and ROI folders not

    supported in web clients

• OMERO 5.4.0

  • Propose delay 5.3.5 release

  • Last few PRs for 5.4.0 - m4 build tonight & testing tomorrow

  • Josh: Docs - change of CLI sysadmin docs. URLs need updating?

    Too late?

    • sysadmin/ - installer vv user-manager or system-admins vv

      omero-admins

    • Don’t want to break URLs in minor release (but can use

      re-directs)

  • JM: breaking up tests to improve reliability

• Outreach

  • Hinxton Big Data now.

  • Heidelberg

B. Other releases/upgrades:

• Figure

  • Will: support big images. Didn’t want to write yet another

    viewer

    • Trying to just render region what’s in view-port as a single

      tile/region

    • On panning, 10pix shift leads to another request

    • Ready for first tests.

  • Chris: few specific questions from HMS, et al.

  • Josh: performance with multiple users. Also iviewer.

  • Chris: need reference images for benchmarking.

  • Will: new urls for rendering added to figure - probably should

    move to webgateway

• iViewer

  • 0.3.0 released. Doesn’t need OMERO 5.4

  • Next release will need 5.4. Features e.g. rendering

  • Want to get to 1.0.0 release before Cambridge workshop

  • Early progress on multiple-viewports

• New website

  • Few small nit-picks and release announcements

  • Addition of social media pages open for review

  • Suggestions for priority for next work?

• Sysadmin

  • Kenny: new audio kit started arriving.

  • Josh: testing resources

    • Need benchmarking systems

    • Use flounder (old demo system) “petr.openmicroscopy.org”!

    • Production system for developers to use/test

    • Same Ansible playbooks as nightshade? Or use IDR playbooks??

    • Hopefully spin up box this week.

C. Glencoe Update (Chris)

• Integrations with other projects: e.g. CellProfiler. Java code

  updates.

• We need to do better job providing for external devs - dependencies

  & builds / maven

• BF not too bad, OMERO needs improving. Mostly better docs?

1. AOB

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

1. Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)

• Josh: Team training

  • Suggestions in

    gdoc

  • Jason “doing well but…”

  • Mark: need consolidation time, so not all in one week.

  • Josh: main deliverable this year is Cambridge workshop

  • Riad: wiki for organizing (Josh: cF. just use ome-internal)

  • Will: make it as public as possible. Good to be able to google

    it.

  • Chris: wiki’s have previously become impenetrable beasts.

    (Kenny: `git grep`)

  • Balaji: what level of detail? J-M: for some topics, starting

    point like a workshop

    • Mark: running playbooks vs. writing playbooks