2024-04-16

Attending: Will, Frances, Dom, Jean-Marie, Petr, Khaled, Maadhav, David, Melissa, Seb, Chris, Andreas, Kyle, Jason,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • preparing to import idr0157 to idr-next, release by end of month
  • NGFF testing on idr-testing looking good
  • new rocky9 pilot to test updated mkngff scripts
• OMERO
  • Action: release omero-script to fix naming issue following https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v69-3-0
    • artifacts built with latest setuptools named omero_scripts.. instead of omero-scripts.tar.gz
  • Ongoing PRs review then Java components release and Openmicroscopy release before DB upgrade. Opportunity to adjust require version cf GS report
    • can consider dropping support for some Java versions
  • Andereas: 2 omero-web PRs under review. Looking at feedback
• Bio-Formats (David)
  • 7.3.0 release later this week (Thursday)
  • Started bumping and releasing lower-level components today
  • No updates to ZarrReader since last week, waiting on further testing

• NGFF

• GerBI

• Glencoe (Chris)
  • Erin and Chris at Bio IT world this week
  • Blog post on Zarr https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2024/04/15/optimizations-ome-zarr.html
  • Emil in Miami doing talk
  • JM: using omero2pandas with CellProfiler, any nice examples? David S: yes, poster is good resource. JM: will ping with questions
  • Seb: Java 17 support: https://github.com/ome/openmicroscopy/issues/6383
• Community
  • EBI course next week, Petr, JM, Frances
  • community meeting
    • registration link to go on website soon, PR open

AOB

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