2020-01-28

Dundee: N/A

Remote: Frances, Josh, Mark, Simon, David,
June, Dom, Chris, Liza, Melissa,
Ola, Kevin, Andreas, Jason, Will, Emil

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR

  • Idr0056: Currently importing into idr-next (prod74; not to be

    released)

    • May be finished before downtime
  • Idr0073: Images converted to ome.tiff and imported into

    idr-testing

    • Large png files, converted to OME-TIFF with Glencoe tools

      (+1)

    • Imported to idr-testing; FW thumbs up

  • Migration

    • Second rsync is done. Re-running playbooks.

    • Hopefully can test later this week. (Frances can start

      early)

• Next release - 14:04

  • Mark: reviews all look successful. Building a RC soon.

  • Josh: Petr to check/approve new features

    (sessions/open_tables/…)

  • Scheduling a next milestone

• SA (learning/mail)

  • Deployments

    • Demo (Mark): omero-signup has an issue (playbook is ready)

      • TypeError: context must be a dict rather than

        RequestContext.

      • https://github.com/ome/prod-playbooks/pull/229

    • Nightshade (Simon): needs webtagging released. Wed?

    • Learning (Mark): done

  • JRS: CB PIs + JD & Chris S.

    • GPFS/licensing request is being worked on

• Glencoe - 14:18

  • See above re: sessions PRs

  • Few Bio-Formats things coming

  • Starting to reach the need for capacity management

    • JRS: sharing scaling experiences? (e.g. Large-Z)

      • CA: access to some should be feasible

      • Approx. 100s of GB per TIFF

    • CA: UI/UX easy doesn’t always map to scalable

      • E.g. “all channels on”

• Community

  • J-m/Petr on the road; Will leaving…

  • Trip to Freiburg upcoming as well.

  • Challenge of responding to ongoing requests/invites

  • Wellcome visit! (Thanks all around)

  • Sharing around tasks to help cover off-time and community items,

    etc.

  • OME Meeting

    • No feedback (yet)

    • JRS to write down few themes and pass it around

    • GS likely to attend in various ways

1. AOB

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

• Calendaring - 14:31

  • Challenge: concerted effort at UoD to adopt Outlook workflows

    • School admins are using concerted calendaring for room

      scheduling, etc.

  • Josh: No group-based solutions

  • JRS: Download (free) applications if you don’t want to use the

    web (No Linux version)

  • June: OME Scheduling is now working

  • JRS: ok. Need to discuss. Please don’t delete the invites.

  • Josh/Mark: Windows licenses - JRS: site licensed

    • CA: “have Windows be your primary operating system, use

      Linux in a VM”

    • JRS: Chris Scott was willing to work with computationalists.

      Let’s propose.

1. Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)

Done: 14:48