2022-06-28

Attending: Will, Jason, Petr, June (in person!) Jean-Marie, Frances, Dom, David, Wilma, Muhanad, Suzanne, Melissa, Andreas, Erin, David S, Mina, Kevin, Emil,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • Bug fixed for plate & annotations idr0133, release next week
  • Archiving studies to new storage. Start with small study for test
  • Search UI work ongoing.
• Bio-Formats/OMERO
  • ZarrReader deps sorted - looking good for OMERO release
  • Improve build etc to avoid issues in future
  • JM: OMERO 5.6.5 artifacts ready & tested. We are switching to RTD
  • Readthedocs ready for docs switch with release
  • Follow same path for Bio-Formats docs too in future
  • Jason: ZarrReader version not tied to OME-NGFF spec version? (No) Expect questions from community.
  • maven vv gradle vv ivy - all have different deps resolution. Plan to remove ivy use in future
• NGFF
  • Some discussion on many-fields per Well - performance issues
  • PlateLabels fixes ongoing
  • Validation
• Glencoe
  • Large OME-TIFF performance - file-handle issues with certain types of files
  • isyntax conversion tools to be upgraded to latest OME-NGFF spec
  • Erin - coordination on release announcement for ZarrReader etc with Glencoe
• Community
  • Jason: meeting to discuss community support with German bio-imaging
  • Community meeting (virtual) - 3 days, different themes
    • large scale public repos, analysis etc.
    • June: week of 14th November
    • Meeting theme “VL OMERO” ‘very large’

AOB

- UoD upgrades tomorrow 7:30. Services outage

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

• FYI: Dundee IT upgrade tomorrow, be ready!

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)