2017-06-27

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27th June

Dundee: Will, Kenny, Jean-Marie, Petr, Mark, Dominik, June, Balaji, Helen, Simone, Roger, Chris,

Remote: Melissa, Wilma, Liza, Sebastien, Emil, David, Eleanor, Jason,

# Agenda - 2:00pm Start #

1. Accepting minutes from [last meeting](https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/minutes/conference-calls/2017/2017-06-20-tuesday-team-meeting)

1. Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)

1. Spaces

1. [Files/Formats](https://trello.com/b/IBHfAIMP/bio-formats-5-x)/[OME Files](https://trello.com/b/WFYWCvoV/ome-files-0-4-0) (Sebastien)

- Last patch release of 5.5.x (5.5.3) in preparation

- Then work on next set of architectural changes

- Tiling benchmark progress. Low level tiff - strips vv tiles.

- Complete over next couple of weeks. C++ and Java

- OME files 0.4.0 out soon with tiled OME-TIFF support.

- Ilastik group contact - io level C++ for use in Python.

1. [Metadata](https://trello.com/c/XQXwX6jj/6-metadata) (Eleanor)

- Eleanor: Josh & Simon been preppring Read-Only server for cytohack

- Balaji working on notebook for querying genes etc

- Eleanor prepping workshop

- Looking at Tara annotations Plate -> Wells

- Bio-studies: csv templates for uploading / annotating generic image annotations

- PAGE-TAB

- JM: OMERO.forms useful? Eleanor: probably not since they have established workflow already

1. [OMERO 5.3.3](https://trello.com/b/iMLTpTt4/omero-533) (J-M)

1. 5.3.3 out today

- Develop will include Roles work (5.4.0) after release.

- Docs - 5.4.0 PR already open

1. [Outreach](https://trello.com/b/Da6OAWam/outreach)

1. Cytohack

1. End of summer - internal workshop on webclient etc.

1. Other releases/upgrades:

1. Figure

1. 3.1.0 to be released tomorrow

1. iviewer

1. 0.2.0 to be released tomorrow

1. [new website](https://trello.com/b/6W7nuoE8/website-020)

1. “Volunteers” will be needed to migrate some news posts [Trello card](https://trello.com/c/aTdBNblP/18-news-migration)

1. Styling work - PR opened for docs, currently ome-internal but later will be all docs.

1. Everybody to do 4 news items each. See PR on card as an example.

1. Update from smuggler/now moving to [omero-ms-queue](https://github.com/openmicroscopy/omero-ms-queue)

1. [Release v1.1.0-beta](https://github.com/c0c0n3/ome-smuggler/issues/11)

1. Next: further tidy up and breaking up / refactor.

1. Sysadmin (current board and recent PRs)

- Been monitoring number of sessions and unique users for demo server and nightshade.

- Will start planning deployment of new website.

1. Glencoe Update (Chris)

- Trying to get out microservices. Thumbnailing & tiles

- Performance analysis.

- Rendering engine performance improvements - work in progress

- Unit tests for OMERO.web tile rendering arguments. E.g. compression settings.

- Also need to improve docs for tile rendering

- Next: Bioformats startup times.

1. Summer plan

- Next target/deadline: Global bioImagin 15-16/09/2017 http://www.eurobioimaging.eu/content-page/exchange-experience-ii

- Another stop for IDR roadshow: IDR 0.5.0

- What do we want to show?

- Release/deployment plan:

- OME Files Java -> BF 5.6.0 -> OMERO 5.4.0 -> IDR 0.5.0

- OME Files Java/BF 5.6.0 15/08

- OMERO 5.4.0 31/08

- Post summer: 5.x series

- Moving towards Zero API breakage

- What does it mean:

- Stable for next 18-24 months

- Move towards “release by deliverable” E.g. next is Cambridge Training

- Adjusting our coding/work practise

- More version to code/test against

- Why? “Monolithic OMERO” is “Deprecated”

- Break into smaller pieces:

- Microservices

- Python plugins

- API addition driven by Apps

- Infrastructure:

- Need easy access to 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 etc

- Apps/microservices deployment

1. AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

- OMERO benchmarking for wider adoption at Imperial

- make subsequent team meetings all-zoom, no meeting room?

- No limit on zoom numbers now

- JM- try it over the summer

- June: won’t cancel room bookings yet - trial period.

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