2024-02-27

Attending: Will, Dom, June, JM, Khaled, Seb, Andreas, David, Frances, Petr, Kyle, Melissa, Chris, Tom, Maadhav, Jason,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • NGFF issues on idr-testing: decided to release idr0154, idr0155 without NGFF work.
  • Continue to work on NGFF for next/future release
  • JM: webclient improvements (based on latest omero-web) will require infrastructure update (Django 4.2 etc)
  • Frances: studies after this release are bigger
  • Seb: deployment on hold at EBI
  • Will: omero-web imgData json without stateful services and iviewer handling of tileloaderrors
  • Khaled: ansible playbook to deploy microservices
  • David: reduce memo file size to improve perf
    • Now thinking how to reduce reading memo file - openBytes gets path to zarr chunks
• OMERO (JM)
  • new ci is ready - will switch after Indonesia trip
    • won’t copy DB etc from existing merge-ci
    • Runs on Rocky9 with Postgres16
    • Clients will require Java11 (Jenkins is Java11 by default)
  • Andreas: 525 - Python 3.12 support
  • Will: figure release
• Bio-Formats
  • Next major release 8.0.0 - possibly smaller bug-fixes into earlier patch releases.
  • Chunk API - revive previous work. Useful for large 3D images
  • Melissa - Java 21 testing this week.

• NGFF

• GerBI (Tom)
  • GerBI community meeting next week - will discuss Data Management etc.
• Glencoe (Chris)
  • checking dependencies stack on JDBC: no concern
    • Seb: see omero.model draft PR to upgrade driver
  • single sign-on: discussing requirements of the tech stack
  • JM: docs update to use Postgres 15 (recommended)
  • Seb: Python 3.12 testing - web apps etc.
• Community
  • Will: next week at this meeting Julio Mateos Langerak (Montpellier) will present (5th March):
    • See recent discussions on microscope metrics and OMERO URIs for LinkML
  • Petr & JM: Indonesia trip next week
  • Jason: OME meeting - planning last 3 days in May in Dundee.
  • Jason: discussions on NGFF in Seattle: multiple thumbnails / representations of an image
    • discussions on funding, OMERO future etc.

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)