Updated to comply with unforeseen circumstances

 

Minutes included.

 

24th March 2005 and 4th of April

DNA Developers meeting

13.00 till 15.00 UK time

Video Conference

 

ATTENDING

 

Both dates:

Alun Ashton DLS

Graeme Winter DL

 

Just 4/4/05

Olof Svensson ESRF

Steve Kinder DL

Darren Spruce ESRF

Karen Ackroyd DL

ANOther ESRF

 

Apologies

Harry, Pierre.

 

Agenda + minutes

 

Orange texts are minutes from the 24th of March

 

1) Suggestions topics and potentially times for the next 2 Virtual DNA Developers meetings. E.g. testing, documentation etc. How should these meetings be recorded etc?

 

GW: Graeme is away from now till the 18th of April (AWA: My notes say May but this must be April?) and maybe more.

 

AWA: Next meeting 21st of April? Agenda for Hamburg meeting as topic?

 

GW: Best if meetings are quite focused? And maybe only 1hr -2hrs.

 

Continuous agenda items – release and bugzilla and dev bb review.

 

GW: 1.0.1 and incorporating scaling merging etc. could be same meeting.

 

Target 1.0.1

 

Olof agreed to compare main and release branch to find out missing bugs. Graeme asked for scheduler differences to be checked past him first.

 

Meet in 2.5 weeks to discuss 1.0.1

 

2) Review of Conversations/threads recently held on dna-dev

 

GW: focus on 1.0.1 and 1.1 discussions?

 

There was a suggestion for more specific was of discussing topics e.g.

Olof: blogs?

GW: blogs and wikkis were not very successful in eHTPX, better maybe more specific mailing lists?

Steve: vid conf could offer the alternative

 

An agreement was reached to give the video conf a try to see if this can work for now.

 

3) Priorities and short term goals. Olof has made the following suggestions to me off line (I hope its OK that I include a version of it here, with my additions, as the basis for discussion Olof)

 

Short term goals:

- Plans for SRS pipeline experiment

AWA: nobody here to discuss. Karen – do you want any assistance with this? From DLS we would like to visit during the tests.

 

Darren needs to find out from ISpyB developers what part needs to be done by Monday 11th of April? Pxweb will be used for first test but maybe by second week of May ISpyB could be used.

 

Darren will contact Karren.

 

- Release of 1.0.1. 1st of April or just after the Hamburg dna-dev

meeting.

  (see later point 4)

 

GW: 1st of April impossible but mid April possible for Release Candidate and Hamburg for release and install it there.

 

Now to be discussed fully in 2.5 weeks. Weds or later on the week starting the 18 maybe 21st.

 

- Progress on Graeme's graeme branch

GW: currently Andrew is trying to test it. After this decide how to merge after tests.

 

AWA: (comment after meeting!) suggest set deadline of deciding what to do by Hamburg meeting

 

ACTION alun to distribute Graeme’s doc to dna-dev – DONE but this doesn’t describe the Graeme branch.

 

Graeme will endeavour to strip out what he doesn’t think should be in there as in what shouldn’t be in DNA. Then people will review.

 

- Progress with second image formats branch.

GW: Many changes made but not currently tested. Changes are not going to be in 1.0.1 there maybe scope to expand to also include CBF imgCIF support but this may not be in the right time scale so nothing to say yet.

 

Timescales? After dna-dev meeting. Aim before ACA at end of May. Danger of the branch breaking what is there… also conflicts with Graeme and image branch.

 

- Creating of branches "pipeline" and "dose".

 

GW: good thing.

 

Dose branch not that difficult to do but impact on small ways in little places. Postpone till dev

 

Pipeline branch should occur for changes in SRS?

Most changes done?

 

- In branch "pipeline" hook up the scheduler to the ISPyB database.

GW: Could hooks between scheduler and ispyb happen in‘another branch’?

 

AWA: Graeme has too many branches at the moment. And this work is not completely about pipelining (though needed by it). It could do with a branch just for itself as Graeme doesn’t want to be dependant on this big and potentially long time pipeline branch. He thinks the hooks branch could be done first/at the same time and put into head for other branches earlier than the pipeline branch.

 

pipeline will occur

changes for scheduler will occur in the main head.

Has to be back in by 1.1 as some is already in the head.

 

- Review of XSD and GUI changes required for pipeline experiment.

AWA: Wrong people – potential for specific meeting next/week after

This has been started by Karen

 

- Definition of the core scheduler/xia committee - finalisation of nominations.

AWA: Nothing new.

This will now be done by AWA

 

- Discussion on 'codes of practice' this committee e.g. should all

decisions be unanimous or majority vote?

GW: Exec can decide on voting.

AWA: Discussions must be made on dna dev and decisions announced.

 

Best to have conversations on DNA-DEV if possible even if decisions done off line.

Recommend unanimous vote for a trial period until full DNA meeting in summer.

 

- Creation of DNA module and DNA project web pages.

GW: Web pages good.

AWA: Need to set up auto update from cvs.

 

- Testing.

GW: Define testing? Etc….

AWA: some ideas e.g. testing days where dev on call…

 

Medium term goals:

- Inclusion of 1.1 release goals like scaling & merging, point group

determination, automatic screening and ranking etc.

GW: mid term goals need to be focused before we get into long term.

 

Long term goals:

- DNA 2.0 goals like kappa and inclusion of XIA.

- DNA data model.

- etc.

 

14.00

4) Release 1.0.1.

Review of Bugzilla and allocation of bugs to be included in 1.0.1

 

Each developer is asked to review the status of bugzilla bugs!

 

ID

Sev

Pri

Plt

Assignee

Status

GW:AWA

Summary

806

nor

P2

PC

harry@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

ASSI

Not sure what this is now

findspots non-optimal

809

maj

P1

All

k.s.ackroyd@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Priority to drop?

Drop to normal?

number format exception

825

enh

P2

All

svensson@esrf.fr

ASSI

Good idea – any luck?

check that exsisting DNA is not already on path

897

min

P2

PC

g.winter@dl.ac.uk

REOP

Low. Not 1.0.1 and subjective.

Too many error messages

933

maj

P1

PC

harry@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

ASSI

Needs to be checked. Still exist? 1.0.1 serious. Don’t know if its still a problem.

Error when integrating images online - too many files open

948

cri

P1

PC

alun.ashton@diamond.ac.uk

ASSI

 

DNA 1.0 Poster

950

enh

P1

All

alun.ashton@diamond.ac.uk

NEW

Close? Reopen for 1.0.1

Need to create general text for DNA 1.0 announcement.

959

cri

P1

All

alun.ashton@diamond.ac.uk

NEW

Reopen! To 1.0.1

Licence for DNA 1.0

960

nor

P2

PC

svensson@esrf.fr

NEW

?

Make the directory created by the ES writable by the (uni...

961

nor

P2

PC

s.h.kinder@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Is it still a bug?

Error message misleading

983

nor

P2

PC

harry@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

ASSI

Needs retesting for 1.0.1 with these frames. Winter? Harry?

Problem with MOSFLM indexing

988

nor

P2

PC

g.winter@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Hassle g.w not blocker but should be sorted for 1.0.1

Rings (ice) reported but not present in images

990

nor

P2

PC

g.winter@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Needs to discuss what to do when this happens. Disscuss before 1.0.1

Mosaic spread games

991

nor

P2

PC

svensson@esrf.fr

ASSI

Steve olof?

Detector suffix from mar345 not working

1002

nor

P2

PC

k.s.ackroyd@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Still a bug?

Not possible to select space group on auto index panel

1025

nor

P2

PC

svensson@esrf.fr

NEW

?

Ugly error when resolution too high for min detector dist...

1027

nor

P2

All

g.winter@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Not urgent

imgCIF/CBF support

1039

nor

P2

PC

svensson@esrf.fr

NEW

Not 1.0.1

ES - BCM sample_reference request

1040

nor

P2

PC

s.h.kinder@dl.ac.uk

ASSI

Not 1.0.1

Improvements of the screening panel

1052

nor

P2

PC

gleb@mpghdb.desy.de

ASSI

Not blocker for 1.0.1

Error in stf output

 

Has everyone been putting in bug fixes into all 3 branches?

 

Graeme – yes. “think so / was my policy to do so”