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title: Meeting Minute 2022-03-09
tags: [plugin, working-group]

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Meeting Minute 2022-03-09
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###### tags: `working-group` `plugin`

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- **Date:** 2022-03-09
- **Agenda**
    - [last week](https://hackmd.io/z8pGc5hPTju8zs3ee3fNQA)
    - [npe2#105] paths/strs
        - anything needed here?
    - enable/disable testing approach
    - napari/npe2 interface tests, mocking approach
- **Participants:**
    - Loic Sauteur
    - Matthias Bussonnier
    - Talley Lambert
    - Pam Wadhwa
    - Nathan Clack
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- [Loic]
    - https://www.napari-hub.org/plugins/napari-annotator
    - hub appearance isn't as nice as he'd like, why?
        - looks like an issue, Talley filing on napari-hub
    - some other problems, realted to label layer colormaps (when creating via napari.utils.colormaps.label_colormap(num_colors=1024)
        - canvas and label layer control tools differ
        - slow label (for label layers > 1000x1000 with some z-slices)

- [Pam]
    - question about skipping tests
        - how to locally test headless
        - eg. testing populate_qmenu
        - advise is to mock to avoid qt

- [Talley]
    - https://github.com/napari/npe2/pull/116
        - blocks 0.4.15 release
    - adding py.typed (see [pr](https://github.com/napari/npe2/pull/115))
        - [x] merged
    - migration of settings (napari#4086)
        - Q: what happens if someone installs an old version of napari in the presence of newer settings?
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- [ ] After the meeting add the minutes to the 'working-group/plugins' folder of [napari/meeting-notes](https://github.com/napari/meeting-notes).

## Links

* [Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18zNXI5M2VjNnZ0cDhzbWhtN2R2NXVvdDB2NEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t)
* [HackMD space](https://hackmd.io/team/napari-wg-plugin)
* [Recorded meeting notes](https://github.com/napari/meeting-notes/tree/master/2021/working-groups/plugins)

[npe2#105]: https://github.com/napari/npe2/pull/105