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# Agenda (Phil)
- 🗣️ Updates from core team retreat
- from all the teams
- 👨👩👧👦 Round table discussions
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## Updates from core team retreat
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## Outreach (Fran)
#### Personnel changes
- 😭 **Fran** to step back from team lead by the end of the year due to time restraints.
- We are looking for a replacement lead!
- 🎉 Newcomer: **Kurayi**
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## Outreach
#### Bytesize
- 💡 We want more ideas!
- Anyone released a pipeline recently?
- The aim is to have 2 bytesizes/month and to find more technical topics
- **Fran** is looking for people to take over the leading and organisation of the bytesize. Please reach out if interested.
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## Outreach
#### Training
- ❌ no more nf-core training per-se
- There is a beginner focused Nextflow training “hello nf-core” and a new “running nextflow”.
- No funding to run our trainings.
- Until our guides improved, difficult to make
- Refer to Nextflow training for basic training, advanced people read guides
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## Outreach
#### Task review
- 🛜 (Leads) will have and can give access to social media accounts
- Generating content and posting on social media (Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Youtube)
- Organising and running bytesize
- **Generating content (soc. media/blog), handling external posts**
- **Weekly helpdesk organisation and announcements**
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## Documentation (James)
🎉 A new dedicated "Documentation" team is being created
Led by **Chris Hakkaart** and **James** will be co-lead.
Anyone interested in joining?
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## Documentation team tasks
- 📑 Design **information architecture** _everywhere_
- nf-core documentation **style guide**
- Review new and existing documentation
- Collaborate with contributors for new content
- Collaborate with infrastructure on **documentation automation**
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## Maintainers (Maxime)
- **James** is stepping down from co-team lead
- 🏆 **Famke** is promoted to co-team lead
- Newcomers:
- **Arthur** in Australia
- **Evangelos** from proteinfamilies
- **Jim** in the UK
- **Kübra** from variantbenchmarking
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## Pipeline Review and Release Processes (Nicolas)
- ⚛️ Emphasise smaller PRs and releases
- Linting to warn about PR size
- Means more but faster reviews
- Means more bigger pool of reviewers
- Reduce the number of reviewers for merging to master/main to 1
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## **V**ery **I**mportant **P**ipelines (Ken)
- Lots of incoming PRs, contribution activity
- Please make a formal dev team
- With multiple co-developers
- Separate developer Slack channel
- separate from user questions
- GitHub team / CODEOWNERS
- Regular dev team meetings
- open to all
- Use milestones to plan releases
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## **V**ery **I**mportant **P**ipelines
- Regularly review default config usage
- Latest release is within 2 tools releases
- With TEMPLATE sync merged
- Issue advisories when there have been known issues
- Extended docs
- All outputs described
- Usage tutorials
- Bytesize, logo, stickers and metro map
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## Infrastructure (Edmund)
### Template roadmap
- 😱 **Workflow inputs** (switch to strict syntax)
- Template: Spring 2026
- Linting (also nextflow lint): Spring 2026
- 😱 **Static types + records**
- Optional: from Spring 2026
- Template: Autumn 2026
- Required: Spring 2027
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## Infrastructure
### Template roadmap
- 😱 **New process syntax**
- Optional: from Spring 2026
- Template: Autumn 2026
- Required: Spring 2027
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## Community (James)
#### Grants
- 🤑 We want to encourage the community to **apply for grants** to work on nf-core!
- There will be:
- Dedicated channel
- Dedicated website page with boilerplate information and suggestions
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# Updates on the October hackathon (Phil)
- Sign ups: approx. 80 sign-ups / 120 capacity,
- Previous years: ~100 participants
- Only 3 projects currently on the website 😢
- Currently accepted (in addition):
- Resource optimization for all nf-core test profiles
- nf-test pit-stop
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