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?
• 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)

Action Items

• Friends and Family bugs outstanding
  • New version of phoenix (Greg)
    • Make Linux release if new version works well (Greg)
  • Version command (Greg)
  • Fetch feedback (Eric)
  • Quick start update (TomG)
  • Ribbon strand smoothing (Conrad)
  • Save ribbon attributes in sessions (Conrad)
  • Save lighting attributes in sessions (TomG)
  • Save clip planes in sessions (TomG)
  • Stretch goals
    • Hither/Yon planes in side view (Greg)
    • Save global pseudobond manager in sessions (Eric)
    • Finish mmCIF NMR structure support (Greg)
    • Figure out and fix Mac OS X runtime linking bug (TomG/Greg/Conrad)
    • First-time start-up failure after installation from dmg (TomG/Greg/Conrad/Eric)
    • Save molecular surfaces in sessions (Eric/TomG)
    • Save named views in sessions (TomG)
• Announcing ChimeraX release
  • Need licensing agreement
  • Invite Andreas and Ezra to try current version
  • Should we focus on specific people/groups or cast a broad net?