2023-01-10

Attending: Will, Jason, Dom, Frances, Petr, Jean-Marie, David, June, Seb, Khaled, Melissa, Kyle, Wilma, David Stirling, Tom BT, Muhanad, Chris, Erin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR:
  • prod113 release next Tues idr0145, idr0137, both from previous submitters
    • HPA run 12 (9 antibodies to follow in next release)
  • Search: PR for searching studies ready for testing
  • Annotation fixes
  • search-engine PRs ready for review
  • Software-only release planned for end of Jan / early Feb.
  • Jason: search allows improved access to ~complex data model
  • Have a look at idr-testing
• OMERO
  • OMERO.web:
    • working with Glencoe on dependencies upgrade See PR #433
    • working on upgrade Jenkins to Python 3.8, Java 11. so we can test in different env
      • aim is Suto upgrade merge-ci. Upgrade strategy to be discussed
  • Openmicroscopy:
    • Simplify release process following the last release see PR #1633
    • Strategy to be applied to Bio-Formats
    • This will simplify CI since we don’t need so many jobs
• Bio-Formats
  • Next release 6.12.0 will be more significant
  • PRs assigned to milestone
  • Release around end of January
• NGFF
  • Will: Support of table spec PR: looking at display of tables sample data in web:
    • viewing data with ome-ngff-validator
    • display of data in Vitessce
  • JM: discussion this Thursday on next steps for ome-ngff-tools
  • Josh working on NGFF paper, talking to authors
  • J-M: give call details to Erin. Maybe find a new time.
• GerBI
  • Tom: preparing OMERO server on Hive (Acquifer) for TIM2023 meeting
  • used ansible to setup server, with training test data
  • Next: prepare import workflow to use at the meeting
  • Fixing issue with python client connection to server
    • needed for various CLI queries etc
    • Using Ubuntu VM on Windows
    • Will ask for OME team to get access to Hive
• Glencoe
  • Chris: will open PR to switch session serialization format from pickling (not supported in next Django LTS)
  • Kevin working on rendering settings API
  • JM: web 5.17.0 release soon to give clean starting
• Community

AOB

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Main Topic

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