Attendees

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

Agenda

• Review action items from 8/17 meeting
• ChimeraX alpha 2 release?
• Rotamer library license
• Chimera 1.12
• Alpha 3
  • Yet another new bundle building change
  • Sessions: msgpack vs pickle
• Alpha 4
  • Undo manager
  • Preferences GUI
• Preserve logs in sessions as history?
• Beta release topics
• Next meeting
  • Who will develop mmCIF writer? ​ticket
  • ChimeraX on Github

Discussion

• ChimeraX alpha 2 release
  • done
• Rotamer library license
  • Revise license to say "Chimera and ChimeraX" instead of just "Chimera"
  • Don't hold your breath
• Chimera 1.12 waiting on:
  • feedback about Windows possible virus-checking problem
  • Dunbrack rotamer license
  • pdb.org vs. rcsb.org
  • openssl on Linux, use system version
• Alpha 3
  • 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
• Alpha 4
  • Undo manager
    • Conrad
  • Preferences GUI
    • Eric
    • Core preferences + 1 example bundle preferences
    • Ensure fetching URL is settable via preferences
  • Rescan tickets, in particular, findclash
• 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
• Beta release topics
  • Why do we need a beta so soon? Why not leave it as alpha?
  • Is December a realistic target?
  • Will bundles move out from core, e.g., atomic?
  • What are the beta APIs? Toolshed. Atomic. Command...
  • How much "firming up" API is needed?
  • What consists of "the API"? Public methods, even those without Sphinx documentation?
  • Release protocol for "core" bundles?

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 determine if pdb.org is a redirect
• Conrad will send mail to RCSB about bad pdb.org certificate