Attendees

• Conrad, Elaine, Eric, Scooter, TomG, TomF

Agenda

• Review action items from 8/10 meeting
• Yet another new bundle building change
• Sessions: msgpack vs pickle
• ChimeraX alpha 2 release?
• Rotamer library license
• Chimera 1.12
• Alpha 4
  • Undo manager
  • Preferences GUI
• Preserve logs in sessions as history?
• Next meeting
  • Who will develop mmCIF writer? ​ticket
  • ChimeraX on Github

Discussion

• ChimeraX paper
  • Sent a PDF with changes, which was acknowledged
• Yet another new bundle building change
  • Using API version attr instead of testing for exceptions
  • Enhance bundle API to pass bundle/command info to register_command and start_tool
• Sessions: msgpack vs pickle
  • 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
  • announcements
• Rotamer library license
  • Revise license to say "Chimera and ChimeraX" instead of just "Chimera"
• Chimera 1.12 waiting on:
  • feedback about Windows possible virus-checking problem
  • Dunbrack rotamer license
  • pdb.org vs. rcsb.org
• Ensure fetching URL is settable via preferences
• Table further alpha 4 discussion until Greg is here
• Preserve logs through sessions via:
  • preference to not save
  • mechanism to not render entire history at start
  • GUI to display/clear old logs by date or other criteria
  • search capability
  • close session discussion
    • pref for wipe log vs. retain
    • if not wipe, need to only save from 'close session' on
    • restore session implies close session

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)
• Elaine Alpha 2 announcements
• Eric will if pdb.org is a redirect