Minutes_Standards_2024 03

Standards Call 2024-03

Agenda

• General discussion: When are we "done" and what is a realistic timeline for this?
• Discussion Contributor record (#741)
• Structure of Cell and associated objects (#768)
• Lineage schema (Background: #378, #333, #317; Proposal: #769)
• Update DataProcessing for v2.0? (#313, #434, #453; Related: #578)
• Structure of AIRR Docs (#730, #745), See pull request (#763)
• New Event record and its embedding in the Schema (#749)
• Manifest schema (#548).

Minutes

Meta

• Date: Mon, 2024-03-04 19:00 UTC
• Present: Jason, Ulrik, Christian, Brian, Chaim
• Regrets: ...

Topics

• General discussion:
  • Goal is to have 2.0 (nearly) done by June, focus on core features
  • Stop pushing Issues to v2.1, there should be no issues linked to this milestone in June
  • Document things that will not be dealt in v2.0, so that they could be resuscitated for v3.0 (eg, wiki, project, or milestone for archived issues)
  • Paper writing should start in summer, all issues within the scope of v2.0 will be collected and solved in v2.1
  • We foresee that smaller development steps will take place post v2.1, but this will happen in sprint-style by smaller groups, so the WG could still dissolve at Porto.
  • How to coordinate these changes will need to be discussed.
• Contributor record (#741): Done and merged. Realized that R and python test files out of sync, will be handled #775
• Cell et al. (#768): There is agreement that "Option #3" is what we want to go for, i.e.,
  • Cell is not a container
  • Objects are linked together via cell_id
  • Cell is maintained as an separate object that contains cell-specific metadata that does not fit into any other object
  • We will keep the Cell->``Receptor`` linkage (within cell) as Receptor is a global object
  • We will rename CellExpression and CellReactivity to Expression and Reactivity
• Event object will be pushed to post v2.0, but we will come up with a plan to address it.
• We will close #763 and annotate the appropriate issues/PRs with the Documentation project.
• Lineage schema PR will be made with unit test data. #333 will be closed.
• Manifest object will be revisited on a later call.
• DataProcessing redesign will not make it into v2.0.