2018-03-20

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

Remote: Seb, Josh, David, Melissa, Emil, Chris, Jason, Andreas

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• West (Workflows)

  • B-F 5.8.1

    • Review of the remaining PR on-going

    • Release prep tomorrow, release Thursday

  • OMERO 5.4.5

    • One possible blocker found on Friday. PR final review

    • Sysadmin chat: user process limit

      • Test on new server

      • Chris - looking into leaks. Not BlitzGateway dependent

        • More fundamental

        • Looking at session management changes since 5.2

        • And see if 5.2 has same problems

        • Prior to 5.2 max_requests_limit was 400 - recycled

          without issue

        • Mark: Ice 3.5 vv 3.6 issue? Chris: possibly

  • iviewer:

    • testing on-going

    • Release after OMERO

• East (infra/IDR 0.5.0)

  • IDR 0.4.7

    • Servers nearly up - then imports can begin immediately

    • idr0040 to start ASAP

    • Need predictable schedule for planning

  • IDR 0.5.0

    • read-only issues currently receiving focus:

      • difficulty starting up in CI

      • intermittent server exception on login

      • Bio-Formats readers do not open (as mentioned last week)

      • read-write assumptions in getters of rendering and

        thumbnail beans

    • Testing & demoing on the horizon

    • IDR 50 testing in Docker painful but needed for read-only

      testing

  • Various other small releases & issues

    • ome-* components except turbojpeg (licence issues - upload

      jar instead)

    • Pyramids: Hitting MinimalTiffReader issues

      • Refactor needed
    • Microservices: Hitting the server/blitz circular dependency

• Glencoe - Chris

  • 5.4 upgrade

• Community

  • Users’ Meeting - registrations increasing… Room bookings etc.

  • Updates from Janelia & Singapore GBI meetings: Jason

    • Interesting times

    • Everyone having similar management (large-scale) needs

    • Have shown it’s possible and now they want to, too.

    • Accessing expertise, but costing issue.

  • Update from

    TIM

    • 2 workshops - well attended.

    • Positive feedback

    • Good level of interest in getting started/installed

    • Expert users feedback - import issues - dropbox - smuggler -

      Insight issues etc.

    • See feedback on card & linked gdoc

  • UoDIT

    • “It’s a communication problem”

1. AOB

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

• www-legacy is finally dying - please check if there is anything

  private access there that you want to keep before the end of the week as we may just rely on a public web archive or just mirror the public access content for our own archives.

• Still some content not migrated. Export of Plone content to html not

  working.

• Most useful: OME meeting presentations (external) and internal

  meeting notes.

• June: previous OME meeting programmes useful for getting speaker

  lists etc.