2024-04-23

Attending: Will, Dom, JM, Frances, Josh, June, Chris, Seb, Khaled, Petr, David, Kevin, David S, Melissa, Kyle, Andreas

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • Dom importing idr0157 on idr-next (13 TB) aim to release by next week, including rocky9 update
  • idr-testing of NGFF update, looking good.
  • Plan to release after next release
  • Will: looking at iviewer spinners (during movie playing)
  • Khaled: using caching for microservices. Testing looked good this morning.
  • microservices limited to 10 channels max - configurable
  • iviewer doesn’t currently know about this limit or how to handle it
• OMERO
  • releasing OMERO model etc later this week
  • UI blocking PR in progress
  • OMERO.figure patch release last week
    • Ready for release of update with vite.js etc.
  • Petr testing nightshade upgrade to RHEL9
• Bio-Formats
  • 7.3.0 released (Java 21 compatibility etc).
  • 8.0.0 planning but no timeline yet
• NGFF
  • SpatialData news (eg twitter)
  • RO-Crate could be used for Collections in NGFF. Proposal needs writing
  • Zarr v3 roadmap (1777)
    • May: alpha, June: release(-candidate)
    • Recent spec bugs (implicit groups, v2/v3 mixes - needs clarifying that this should be avoided)
    • Refactoring group (v3) to become zarr-python dev group
    • SciPy, PyData, NASA, oh my
  • Erin feedback?
  • Seb: Zarr v3 in NGFF? Wanted to get transforms out first, but may not be possible. Josh: want to push on v3 soon.
    • Melissa: Zarr Java needs work. Tricky to handle v2 and v3 at the same time. Josh: needs more thought/planning
• GerBI
  • Josh: OMERO workshops in preparation.
  • Funding: i3d ending
  • TIM 2025: planning on OMERO server install again
• Glencoe
  • ABRF meeting this week
  • Presented NGFF etc.
  • Seb: OMERO.figure export script fix to limit rendering plane size. Patch release?
    • JM: update action - will open PR
• Community
  • Only 1 external registration so far!
  • EBI course this week Thurs/Fri (JM, Petr, Frances)
  • JM: Internal OME tech talks on Tuesday meeting? Short topics, e.g. 15 mins
    • Chris: prep done for 2 talks e.g. server-side threading,

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)