tags: Tuesday —

2026-01-06

Attending: Will, Dom, Frances, Petr, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Seb, Chris, Joel, Damien, Khaled, Kyle, Melissa, David, Johannes

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances)
  • working on idr0167 and idr0171 for next release
  • plan to add BioFile Finder to next release
  • Dom: working on Ansible playbooks for migration of IDR to Dundee infrastructure
• OMERO
  • Andreas: OMERO.web 5.30.1 upcoming release
    • https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A5.30.1 for tomorrow morning unless objections?
  • Seb: OMERO.server
    • Working on build infrastructure to reduce load on OME Artifactory - monitor over next couple of weeks
    • Ongoing issue affecting GitHub workflows trying to access Maven Central - https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/183607
  • Roadmap towards OMERO 5.6.17 release (February timeline)
    • Bio-Formats 8.4.0
    • OMERO.py 5.22.0 with Python 3.10+ minimum version
    • OMERO.web 5.30.1 or 5.31.0 (Django 5.2 LTS)
    • OMERO.scripts 5.10.0
    • OMERO PR review call scheduled on January 27 (1pm GMT)
  • Will: OMERO.figure 7.3.0 released yesterday
• Bio-Formats (Melissa)
  • 8.4.0 planned for release next week
  • Then shift to longer term planning. OME Schema discussion on 19th
• NGFF
  • Johannes: RFC-5 review deadline at end of the week.
    • Few remaining questions for Will
  • Johannes: Any other “small things” to consider for v0.6 TBD, e.g. spec text. Will announce on image.sc
  • Joel: we’re adding OME-Zarr v0.5 support to ngio before OME-Zarr v0.6 is released
• GerBI
  • Damien: discussing Biological Imaging Ontology maintenance
• Glencoe (Chris/Erin)
  • Happy New Year!
• Community
  • Karolinska outreach planning. May upgrade 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)