2022-03-08

Attending: Will, Seb, Frances, Josh, Petr, Jason, Khaled, Jean-Marie, Melissa, June, David, Chris, S

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR:
- next release aimed for early April
- New UI (idr front page) and videos due early April
  - https://idr-testing.openmicroscopy.org/
- IDR storage changing - Seb: more details coming
NGFF
- metadata kick-off (Josh):
  - “metadata completeness” needed for IDR
  - Underlying data in form of OME-NGFF
- 0.4 & samples
  - ZarrReader & MoBie getting close
  - more distributed work than previously - growing community
- zarr-python 2.11 issues
  - fill values, numpy indexing bugs. Let Josh know if you see any issues
Releases
- Django 3.2 PR merged, moving towards rc1.
- last PR to add django-cors-headers to requirements
- rc1 used in omero-test-infra for mapr
- webtagging PR opened, but we can’t merge/release
- Chris: TODO: upgrade guide for plugin authors
- Jason: schedule? RC1 by end of week
  - docs & deployment updates
  - Seb: Done by end of March? release and deployed on our systems
Glencoe
- Django 3-2 done
- New staff due next week
- bioformats2raw - update to latest NGFF spec
Community

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)