Attendees

Elaine, Eric, Greg, TomG, TomF, Conrad, Scooter

Agenda

• Run daily build for demo
• Review Elaine's notes on Andreas note
  • Rainbow coloring by residue in chain is implemented ("sequential residues" option)
• Discuss ribbon
  • Optimization is done (as done as it will be for the release)
  • Ribbon size increased by 50% but can be adjusted as needed
  • Strand smoothing still needs to be done
  • hideBackbone option needs to be made sticky
  • "default" value for "adjust" needs to be added
• Discuss session status
  • Volume models not in sessions currently
  • Python level ribbon attributes
  • Global pseudobond manager
  • Lighting
• Decide what else still needs to be done
  • finish mmCIF NMR structure support
  • figure out and fix Mac OS X runtime linking bug
• Will there be a Linux release?
• Friends and Family bugs outstanding
  • New version of phoenix
  • Version command
  • Fetch feedback
  • Quick start update
  • Session restore of surfaces
  • Ribbon strand smoothing
  • Stretch goals
    • Hither/Yon planes in side view
• Decide who will get the friends-and-family release
• Decide on bounded Qt evaluation plan
  • --windowsys flag
  • implement:
    • dockable main window
    • status line
    • OpenGL area
      • mouse modes
    • reply log (perhaps simplified)
    • balloon help
    • menus
    • command line
      • keystroke forwarding
  • ETA:
    • top priority and few distractions (other ChimeraX emergencies, grant writing, etc.): 1 month
    • therefore probably 2 months
  • Notes:
    • separate Git checkout, for easy variance of compiler environment and options
    • frequent testing of Linux version
    • Qt 5.5.1 (latest PyQt)