2024-03-21

Attending: Sanket Verma (SV), Thomas Nicholas (TN), Ward Fisher (WF)

TL;DR:

Updates:

• Join ZulipChat: https://ossci.zulipchat.com/
• HTTP Extension meeting took place on 3/14
  • Trying to figure out the best way forward, i.e. a ZEP or not
  • Guaging interest and use cases from others in the community

Meeting Minutes:

• HTTP Extension
  • WF: Can see the shape of it, and I think it would be useful
  • SV: Existing thread: https://ossci.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/423692-Zarr/topic/HTTP.20Extension
  • TN: Tom’s company may have a use case for the HTTP work
• Showing VirtualiZarr (related to the “chunk manifest” ZEP)
  • TN: Been working on the packages for the last 2 weeks - could potentially replace Kerchunk
  • TN: code walkthrough via screen sharing
  • TN: Storing the virtual Zarr manifests, not the actual array values
  • TN: Could move class ManifestArray to Zarr-Python - arguments in favour and against it
  • TN: Could see donating VirtualiZarr to zarr-developers
  • SV: Action items
    • TN to create a topic for VirtualiZarr to gather feedback/comments
    • SV to try VirtualiZarr
    • TN and SV to work on ZEP Extension proposal for virtual Zarr manifest and formally present it for broader feedback
• TABLED
  • Revising ZEP0
    • https://github.com/zarr-developers/zeps/pull/59