Attendees

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

Agenda

• Review action items from 8/3 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?
• Log vs session in ChimeraX
• Rotamer library license
• Next meeting
  • Chimera 1.12 release?
  • Who will develop mmCIF writer?
  • ChimeraX on Github

Discussion

• ChimeraX paper
  • Cannot run Adobe Acrobat in a browser, waiting on Wiley
  • Ignore latest email message
• Yet another new bundle building change
  • Works for daily build
  • Enhance bundle API to pass bundle/command info to register_command and start_tool
  • Bump version to 0.2
  • Use try/except to handle 0.1 bundles in 0.2
• Sessions: msgpack vs pickle
  • Need to distinguish between tuples and lists when restoring
  • Development version of msgpack supports better type extensions
  • New msgpack session code handles tuples/lists but is ~10% slower than before
  • Use different extension mechanism to handle tuples/lists instead of overloading map serialization and checking for special __type__ key
  • Other custom types, e.g., DateTime, will use new extension mechanism as well
• 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.
  • Tom will make a list of major features added since alpha 1.
  • Eric will look into Elaine's core dump.
  • Need to run debug test .
• Log vs session
  • Preserve logs as history but not displayed when session is opened
• Rotamer library license
  • "We will not divulge source to rotamer library"
  • We distribute a binary encoded file for part of the source data
  • Revise license to say "Chimera and ChimeraX" instead of just "Chimera"

Action Items

• 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)