Agenda

• Actions from meeting 75 (Steve)
• DOIs – next steps (Tom)
• ICAT development (Steve)
• InvestigationGroup (Rolf/Tom)
• IDS development – and linking proposal (Steve)
• TopCAT development (Wayne)
• Roadmap (Steve)
• Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
• AOB (Any)

Notes

Present : Alastair, Steve, Kevin, Wayne, Brian R, Milan, Kunal, Tom, Condie and Shelly
Apologies : Rolf

This was the first meeting for Brian Ritchie who has started work on the IJP and for Condie Mckenzie-Smith who is working  with Tom for a year.

• Action 75.0 to produce a diagram and description of the schema has been done.
• Tom is awaiting a reply on the balsamiq license for open source development (75.2). Meanwhile he has provided a license that can be used to get started with the web (rather than desktop) version.
• Wayne (75.3) has moved the TopCAT mockup to the web version of balsamiq but wants to make more changes before sharing it. Tom expressed an interest in making available what had been done so far.
• Steve has contacted Christian Felder concerning the future of py-icat (75.5). Christian is still interested but acknowledges that the current version needs updating to make it work with ICAT 4.3.
• IDS 1.1.0 has been released (75.7)
• The action to put the simple ICAT browser into contrib (60.1) has been transferred to Condie.

Tom spoke on next steps for DOIs. As we have agreement on what to do, Steve will look at the scripts which are used by mantid to see if they can easily be integrated into the release process – new Action 76.0

Steve spoke on the ICAT development and mentioned that ICAT 4.3.3 had been released and that the restful interface for 4.4.0 was well underway. The import/export and session management were complete and search and create are now being worked on. The client calls are as far as possible like the SOAP ones however the interfaces are quite independent and a generator of entity objects for a Java and Python client will be needed.

The discussion on InvestigationGroup was postponed to the next meeting when we hope Rolf and Tom will coincide.

Steve spoke briefly about the IDS linking proposal. Tom thought it might be useful to ISIS  in the future.

Wayne spoke about TopCAT development. 1.12.0-SNAPSHOT has been made available. Christophe had tried it and only had a few minor criticisms.

Steve suggested that the interval between roadmap updates should be increased from three to four months. It was suggested that he send out an email to request suggestions which will then be discussed at the next monthly meeting.

Tom reported a couple of issues from ISIS with TopCAT’s use of the IDS. One problem is that TopCAT can generate URLs that are too long.

Actions

Item	Description	Assigned
76.0	Look into using variant of mantid scripts to publish DOIs for ICAT software.	Steve
75.1	Consider using a config file rather than topcatadmin	Wayne
75.2	Convert balsamiq desktop licences to web and consider suitable license for open source software development	Tom
75.3	Publish improved TopCAT mockup	Wayne
75.4	Submit TopCAT requirements	Andy
75.6	Check that existing release of IDS includes facility name in the ZIP path	Alistair
74.0	Look into JDBC connector resilience with Wildfly	Steve
61.1	Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is ready	Condie
60.3	Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing list	Steve