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title: 2022-02-01 Technical meeting notes
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# 2022-02-01 Technical meeting notes

*Attendees*: Isaac, Danila, Ilia, Giovanni, Phil

## Agenda

* `scverse` config?
* Data interchange with `R` – what's going on here
* Data hosting – [theislab/scanpy#2124][]
* Scanpy builds (CI tests are failing, any ideas?)

## Notes

* `scverse` config files
    * [`platformdirs`][]: Should have standard places for caches, datasets, etc, per platform
    * Overrides? (machine cfg file < user cfg file < project cfg file < code)
        * If so: Allow user to diagnose where overrides happen
    * `scanpy config [-g]` CLI?
* Common issues & enhancement proposals (“SEP”s)?
    * Repo
    * or Discourse
* Data hosting
    * URLs for data not stable (data changes): Ask to get stable ones?
    * Can we get people to upload data? Citable data packages?
        * We can at least have a somewhat standard way of linking `doi`s to datasets
* Data conversion
    * Standardize on one package doing AnnData hdf5 conversion
        * Talk to R people about standardizing hdf5 IO in R. 


[theislab/scanpy#2124]: https://github.com/theislab/scanpy/issues/2124
[`platformdirs`]: https://github.com/platformdirs/platformdirs
