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
• Preferences GUI
• Alpha 4
• Undo manager
• Next meeting
  • Preserve logs in sessions as history?
  • 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"

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