2023-06-13

Attending: Will, Frances, JM, Dom, David, June, Khaled, Melissa, Jason, Chris, Muhanad, Andreas, Kyle, Maadhav, Seb, Petr, David Stirling, Kevin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • idr0147 Mouse kidney
  • search engine improvements
  • NGFF Fileset swaps - Josh’s scripts to work on Fileset swaps, using Fileset ID and name.zarr (and s3 mount path) - Will to provide table of those inputs

• Upcoming meeting with BIA team cf. NGFF storage

• OMERO/infra
  • Merge-ci is back, public access
    • Improving workflow so we can swap CI
    • C7+scl python 3.8, short to medium term
      • PRs omero-py, omero-web, omero-common and openmicroscopy opened to fix some issues
    • Looking at replacing it by Rocky Linux 9 as previously mentioned. (Depends on UoD IT too)
    • coming release of java components starting from omero-model now that the CI issue is behind us
    • Andreas - looking at Django 4.2 update
    • Will - merge-ci not Django 4.0 yet - CSRF issue on update from Django 3.2
• Bio-Formats
  • upcoming release - will be minor release instead of patch - deprecate Woolz reader
  • will follow shortly with major release to remove Woolz reader
• NGFF
  • see above

• GerBI

• Glencoe
  • meetings coming up
  • Seb: would be good to include histogram changes in upcoming server releases. Also to update webclient to support histograms on big images
  • Seb’s PR to follow Kevin’s
• Community
  • OMERO Development and Priorities Meeting Agenda
    • external contributions - CLA, cleanup of historical code etc.
  • Items for presentation at meeting from OME Dundee:
    • Updates to OMERO search
    • validation to OMERO metadata for submission to IDR (and….)
    • Transfer of OMERO data to IDR
    • OMERO (web) apps: OMERO.figure

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)