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tags: Tuesday
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# 2024-05-07

Attending: Will, Petr, JM, June, Khaled, Josh, Tom, David, Andreas, Kyle, Erin, Melissa, Chris, Chris M, David S, Seb,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

## Accepting minutes from [last meeting](https://hackmd.io/team/ome?nav=overview)

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR:
- JM: next release end of this week
- searchengine indexer took longer than expected, needs some investigation / validation
- ZarrReader PR review in progress
- JM: docs etc need to manage expectations

- OMERO
- JM: started releasing various Java components, starting with BF 7.3.0 bump, then openmicroscopy etc.
- Modified devspace to test with Java 11, 17 & 21 in rotation.
- TODO: update docs with info on how to run OMERO on Java 17 etc, and move to dropping Java 8
- New private devspace setup
- Andreas: tagging PRs for next omero-web release. Some still needing review.
- Will: OMERO.figure upgrade (vite) PR merged. Holding off release for now to catch any outstanding bugs (1 just fixed)
- iviewer: 2 PRs for IDR mostly ready to merge

- Bio-Formats
- David: Flex PR investigation for IDR

- NGFF
- RFC-1 (process) rebuttal underway
- some useful responses
- Transforms alt-proposal (https://forum.image.sc/t/ome-ngff-update-postponing-transforms-previously-v0-5/95617/2)
- Proposal to drop max 5D requirement. How much consensus in the community? Currently a blocker for some users.
- Metadata update. Proposal in prep for OME meeting
- Zarr update
- 2.18.0 forthcoming (https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/pull/1843). Last expected for 2.x.x.
- v3 still moving along
- kerchunk / chunk manifests (https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/287)
- variable chunk size (ZEP3). TBD: can this be combined with sharding?

- GerBI (Tom)
- finished tests for KVP scripts update. Ready for review

- Glencoe (Chris)

- Community
- OME meeting: registrations picking up
- JM: post-meeting discussions on Java support? (2 from Glencoe will be coming)
- Tuesday meeting next tech discussion? Chris: maybe on omero-web, but nothing prepared

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)