Developer meeting 04/01/2024

[alessandrofelder]

Development conventions

• We reminded ourselves that we should name released versions on GitHub with semantic versioning, e.g. v1.2.3 - the desc
• We agreed to prefer importlib.resources (formerly pkg_resources) to pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.... as the mechanism to access small package data files (e.g. the brainglobe logo)

Development planning

We discussed staffing plans for ARC team members with quarterly planning imminent. At least Will G will continue on BrainGlobe at 0.5 FTE. We discussed potential other projects that could be supported by ARC and settled on:

1. Finalising conda packaging
2. reduce duplication on org-level (e.g via a org-level .github repo)
3. push napari group layers PR forward

Brainrender-napari UX

We decided that we should have separate table views for local and remote atlases in the version manager widget. Some or all of this code could someday move into bg-atlasapi (bg-atlasapi[gui] and bg-atlasapi[napari]). Alessandro will create issues for this.