2023-10-03

Attending:Petr, Jmarie, Dom, Frances, Chris, Khaled, Andreas, Kevin, David, Seb, Melissa, Kyle, David Stirling, Maadhav, Muhanad, June, Erin

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

adcepted

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • Release planned for today, problem identified with Cell Lines in mapr and Gallery
  • The problem is not a regression, but will postpone release and make decision during this week
  • EBI transfer storage: Seb waiting for permissions request completion
  • NGFF conversion: David: Zarr reader in good shape, few issues to be ironed out - to coordinate with Will
  • J-M: Zarr reader changes made are tailor-made for the IDR data - not necessarily for vanilla OMERO
• OMERO
  • release of OMERO.server (5.6.9) and omero-py (5.16.1)
  • Tested deployment of OMERO.server and web on RHEL 9
  • Finishing ansible roles then test roles on RHEL 9 VM
  • devspace updated to rocky9 (Java 11, Python 3.9, nginx. 1.24, postgres 16), currently running on a pilot (EBI) to be tested on RHEL 9 after ansible test
• Bio-Formats
  • patch release at the beginning of next week
• NGFF
  • Chris: spec version3 writing
  • Melissa: Investigation in Zarr Java
  • Melissa: Also having a fork of JZarr, separate from Zarr Java

• GerBI

• Glencoe
  • Upgrade of OMERO vs new installs - changes in upgrading docs upcoming - large jumps in series of dependecies when migrating from CentOS7 -> Rocky Linux 9 or Ubuntu 18.04 -> Ubuntu 22.04
  • Main problem with OpenSSL
• Community
  • Barcelona upcoming

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)