Attendees

Conrad, Scooter, Eric, Greg, TomG, TomF

Agenda

• Download page for public
• Chimera 1.11.2 release

Discussion

• Platform-specific components for wheels
• Download page for public
  • Include date of build on download page (Conrad)
  • Add more disclaimers on download page to set expectations (Tom & Elaine)
  • Add systems requirements
  • Add message to log file to alert users that session format is likely to change
  • Add log information about file when loading mmcif/pdb files (Greg)
  • Add pdbe to prefixes as well as sources (Conrad)
• Chimera 1.11.2 release
  • Fixes gestures crashes on Mac
  • Release it

Additional alpha-release possible features

• Write PDB format
• Improved writing of mmCIF format

High priority tickets for alpha-release

• #473 Create Linux installer and distribute necessary system libraries. Greg
• #469 HTML link to open local file should be interpreted relative to HTML file location. Greg

Medium priority tickets for alpha-release

• #472 ChimeraX "open" command format-specification issues. Greg
• #418 problems with help command new-viewer option. Greg
• #412 Fails to start on Mac with comma in app name. Conrad
• #370 links from Help viewer to external pages give traceback in Qt version. Greg
• #235 Compressed session files should have suffix .cxs instead of .cxs.gz. Greg
• #69 Atom spec parsing does not preserve model or chain order. Conrad

Low priority tickets for alpha-release

• #449 Volume planes on multiple data display is erratic. TomG
• #447 Transparency command on volumes undone when contour level changes. TomG
• #417 Help viewer suggestions. Greg
• #367 Error after deleting all atoms. Eric
• #299 Ability to add tool-specific keywords to open command. Greg
• #236 Saving a session with an unknown model type gives an error. Greg
• (ticket?) Fix remote signing of Windows installers

More discussion needed

• #342 Convert from cxhelp/cxcmd schemes to http scheme. Conrad
• #259 Tools should not save in sessions by default. Greg
• #251 Session save/restore slow. Greg
• #61 Rendering takes minutes, Mac Nvidia Geforce GT 330M graphics. TomG

Check and close

• #411 Copyright messes up Mac installer html. Conrad
• #378 Atom spec parsing stops at non-whitespace. Conrad
• #327 Log stops updating beyond 2 Mbyte size. TomG
• #318 Colourlovers palette message logged above command. TomG
• #284 handle mmCIF with missing sequence information. Greg
• #283 Curved helix tubes. Conrad
• #239 File... Save GUI save image adds ".cxs" before image suffix. Greg
• #214 Save image dialog bitrot. Conrad
• #198 finish session molecular data save/restore. Conrad
• #150 Ribbon slow creation. Conrad
• #140 Provide common database fetching routines. Greg
• #70 log tool doesn't cleanup when deleted. Eric
• #62 Register file fetch using database name. Greg
• #49 Better warning message if oculus fails to start. TomG