2024-05-07

Attending: Will, Petr, JM, June, Khaled, Josh, Tom, David, Andreas, Kyle, Erin, Melissa, Chris, Chris M, David S, Seb,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR:
  • JM: next release end of this week
  • searchengine indexer took longer than expected, needs some investigation / validation
  • ZarrReader PR review in progress
    • JM: docs etc need to manage expectations
• OMERO
  • JM: started releasing various Java components, starting with BF 7.3.0 bump, then openmicroscopy etc.
  • Modified devspace to test with Java 11, 17 & 21 in rotation.
  • TODO: update docs with info on how to run OMERO on Java 17 etc, and move to dropping Java 8
  • New private devspace setup
  • Andreas: tagging PRs for next omero-web release. Some still needing review.
  • Will: OMERO.figure upgrade (vite) PR merged. Holding off release for now to catch any outstanding bugs (1 just fixed)
    • iviewer: 2 PRs for IDR mostly ready to merge
• Bio-Formats
  • David: Flex PR investigation for IDR
• NGFF
  • RFC-1 (process) rebuttal underway
    • some useful responses
  • Transforms alt-proposal (https://forum.image.sc/t/ome-ngff-update-postponing-transforms-previously-v0-5/95617/2)
    • Proposal to drop max 5D requirement. How much consensus in the community? Currently a blocker for some users.
  • Metadata update. Proposal in prep for OME meeting
  • Zarr update
    • 2.18.0 forthcoming (https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/pull/1843). Last expected for 2.x.x.
    • v3 still moving along
    • kerchunk / chunk manifests (https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/287)
    • variable chunk size (ZEP3). TBD: can this be combined with sharding?
• GerBI (Tom)
  • finished tests for KVP scripts update. Ready for review

• Glencoe (Chris)

• Community
  • OME meeting: registrations picking up
    • JM: post-meeting discussions on Java support? (2 from Glencoe will be coming)
  • Tuesday meeting next tech discussion? Chris: maybe on omero-web, but nothing prepared

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)