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# 2025/03/04 (notes)
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- **Date:** March 4, 2025 @ 12 pm EST
- **Participants:** JHLG, OE, CJM, EM, MH, CP, MG
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## Agenda
1. McKenzie's paper is out to review again.
2. NiFreeze--Nat Comms RR
3. Out-of-order releases (CJM)
4. Treat warnings as errors across NiPreps (JHL)
5. FreeSurfer BIDS format (BEP035?)
6. fMRIPrep stats / migas -- ideas
7. Hackathon update
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## Notes
## NiFreeze RR
RR inquiry under consideration by editors.
### Out-of-order releases
Problem: User finds bug in old series, cannot conveniently upgrade to latest. The bug fix violates patch-release rules.
For LTS, we could create a 20.3.0 to indicate incompatibility, but the niworkflows LTS is 1.3.10, and 1.4.0 exists.
Specific patch: https://github.com/nipreps/niworkflows/pull/929/files
* Result: Check in with Lea (half-pipe) about splash damage.
### Treat warnings as errors across NiPreps
Had been [succesfully added to `NiFreeze`](https://github.com/nipreps/nifreeze/pull/40); some other variants (e.g. see [mriqc/comment](https://github.com/nipreps/mriqc/pull/1370#issuecomment-2587318967) and [nireports/comment](https://github.com/nipreps/nireports/pull/157#issuecomment-2652495230)) had been tried for [`MRIQC`](https://github.com/nipreps/mriqc/pull/1370) and [`Nireports`](https://github.com/nipreps/nireports/pull/157): the successful variant seems to be the one used for `NiFreeze`.
Current issues:
- `MRIQC`: failing due to unrelated reasons. Unsure if once that is solverd the fact that things run using a Docker image will allow the warning to error solution work.
- `Nireports`: the solution although being version-agnostic, does not work for one of the builds (`Python 3.9 min`); some warnings that are fixed in a generic way persist on `Python 3.9 min`. See [nireports/comment](https://github.com/nipreps/nireports/pull/157#issuecomment-2693139896).
### FreeSurfer BIDS
current: sub-X_ses-Y
desired: sub-X/ses-Y
https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/1130
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFRNumQyIgjXBNC3brFDLO9FaikjL84noxK6Om-Ctik/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gjdgxs
# fMRIPrep stats
First migas-enabled release: 23.0
First date: