Dan Allan

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icon company Brookhaven National Laboratory - NSLS-II icon location Baltimore icon location Data Engineering Group Lead and Scientific Software Developer at a giant X-ray beam @NSLS2 @bluesky (the science bluesky, not bluesky-social)

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Getting movie files into dask efficiently

Thanks, that's useful to hear. PIMS and napari have started talking more recently and I expect that to continue, so hopefully we can work together to smooth this out.

Raise warning or error if `args: urlpath` not defined

Hi @luke-gregor. This does sound like a situation where intake should be failing loudly. Which driver are you using? I suppose this should be done at the driver level; not...

Unit tests should not touch user config

Yes, agreed. Most do but not all do.

Driver discovery update tracking issue

I set this work down for a bit to see how the new discovery mechanism would hold up "in the wild." Six months on, it seems to be going fine,...

Driver discovery update tracking issue

There are now PRs for every one of the plugins listed in the [Plugin Directory](https://intake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugin-directory.html), including external repos.

Driver discovery update tracking issue

The 5 yet-unmerged PRs are either: * in the `informatics-labs` org, passing CI and awaiting review * failing CI in a way that looks like bit rot on the `master`...

Adopt a convention where the 'intake.drivers' entrypoint name is a mimetype

cc @saulshanabrook who may be interested in this

Adopt a convention where the 'intake.drivers' entrypoint name is a mimetype

Both good points. Yes, I think we would have an entry for each. I think there is no cost to putting the same object in multiple entrypoint entries. I think...

Adopt a convention where the 'intake.drivers' entrypoint name is a mimetype

I have reconsidered this statement. > I think the advantages of aligning our entrypoint names with standard MIME types are such that we might consider retiring (or stop extending) the...

Adopt a convention where the 'intake.drivers' entrypoint name is a mimetype

This also gives a path for a different answer to > This is somewhat complicated by a driver being able to potentially handle several mime-types. You would have an entry...