2021-04-27

Attending: Will, Petr, Frances, Dom, Seb, June, Jason, Melissa, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Wilma, Josh, Kevin, Chris, Erin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR:
  • Release end of April (Thursday) idr0072 and idr0063
• NGFF
  • v0.2 out (depends on zarr-python 2.8). Upgrades as the next step. PR coming…
    • Seb: issue with https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/0.2/ to review post meeting
  • v0.3 movement led by Constantin (meta-thoughts as well). xarray & nczarr?
    • New PR - feedback welcome
  • Polygons also in progress
  • zarr_implementations, slowly but surely unifying
    • Bugs being found and fixed
  • Seb: should v0.3 include more features to make the migration worthwhile?
  • Jason: revisit our proposals re: metadata
    • Josh: json-ld
• Releases
  • JDK/TLS & OMERO.server (Seb)
    • OpenJDK 8 & 11 LTS drop support for TLS 1.0/1.1 (Apr 20,2021)
    • Java update will break some aspects of server/client connections most notably import
    • similar issues to the past (https://blog.openmicroscopy.org/tech-issues/2015/07/21/java-issue/)
    • affects primarily CentOS 7 systems. Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS 8 already needed to generate self-signed certificates server-side
    • initial testing shows the same self-signed certificate workaround is now mandatory on CentOS 7
    • rolling over (TODO):
      • deployment tools: Ansible role / Docker
      • documentation: installation guides, reference documentation
      • advisory? announcement? image.sc post?
      • deployments (UoD, IDR, GS)
    • Chris: Glencoe routinely generates certificates
    • Josh: –> omero-blitz jar needed for clients (Ref: https://github.com/ome/omero-blitz/pull/108 and https://github.com/ome/omero-py/pull/251)
  • OMERO.server release upcoming
    • Bio-Formats version metadata
    • Release date? Josh: a week or so
    • Try ASAP
    • Seb: Mid May as hard cut-off
• Glencoe:
  • Completing conversion pipeline issues
  • Annotations
• OME2021
  • Key note and 14 speakers confirmed, see programme
  • Flash talks in the pipeline already
  • Registration to open next week
  • In process of sending video instructions, 1 month for content
  • Chris: finalizing text for potential contributors
  • JRS: publicity on speakers list (:+1:)
• Community
  • ELMI workshop abstracts submitted
    • 3 workshops - Petr, JM, Frances, Josh

AOB

• (June) Several people are off on Monday 3rd May - cancel IDR meeting
• (Josh) .eu domain names
• (Jason) Laptops - new start mid May
  • Mac?

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)