Attendees

• Conrad, Elaine, Eric, Greg, TomG, TomF

Agenda

• Review action items from 7/27 meeting
• ChimeraX paper
• Yet another new bundle building change
• Sessions: msgpack vs pickle
• Chimera 1 fetching vs SSL certificate on Windows
• ChimeraX alpha 2 release?
• Next meeting: Chimera 1.12 release?
• Next meeting: Who will develop mmCIF writer?
• Next meeting: ChimeraX on Github

Discussion

• ChimeraX paper
  • Cannot run Adobe Acrobat in a browser, waiting on Wiley
• Yet another new bundle building change
  • Works for daily build
  • Conrad needs to update sample code
  • Enhance bundle API to pass bundle/command info to register_command and start_tool
• Sessions: msgpack vs pickle
  • Switched to msgpack as default and test.
  • Renaming MAV to SeqView breaks old sessions with MAV. Probably don't care.
  • No bug reports from users.
  • More testing needed. If successful, leave msgpack as the default.
• Chimera 1 fetching vs SSL certificate on Windows
  • No longer fails. Tickets closed.
• ChimeraX alpha 2 release?
  • All will test sessions as much as possible.
  • Eric will update splash screen image.
  • Conrad will generate session "release notes" limitations.
  • Check back on Monday.

Action Items

• Greg: More testing is needed. Test pdb.org vs rcsb.org.
• All: Go through tickets and assign alpha2 milestone to important defect tickets
• Conrad will continue working on ribbon tickets
• Conrad will investigate implementing the "like" operator
  • e.g., to specify polymer in atomspec
• Scooter will investigate making tickets public (possibly marking some tickets private)