Attendees

• Eric, TomG, Greg, Conrad, TomF

Agenda

• mmCIF output (defer to next meeting)
• Documentation and tutorial strategy
• Release 0.7
  • Review ​milestone priorities
• Chimera 1.13 release
• Wildcard/regex/case matching in commands
• What to show in log when opening model? Citation? Title? ticket #1030

Discussion

• Documentation and tutorial strategy
  • Distribute Sphinx meta data as part of app to facilitate building bundle documentation
  • Tristan will be our first guinea pig, writing both user and developer documentation for ISOLDE
• Release 0.7
  • We reviewed milestones
  • Several linux-related tickets can be addressed by container-izing ChimeraX so that required libraries are included in the distribution. "Flat Pack" APIs is currently the most popular container system. Greg will investigate using this API and provide a demo at our CDM two weeks from now. There is some concern over the size of ChimeraX distribution if all libraries must be included.
• Chimera 1.13 release
  • Update to Python 2.7.14 beforehand
  • Switch to modern openssl on Mac builds to avoid TLS 1.1 problems
  • Additional tools menu now being tested -- couple more days
  • Very close to including new rotamer library too
  • Several changes to Vina remote job submission code have been incorporated to prevent users from doing stupid things that cause very long run times
  • Goal: have a release candidate up by the end of next week

Action Items

• Conrad will reply to Nadya about Vina
• Conrad will update version number to 0.6
• Conrad will switch to using new openssl for Chimera 1.13 release
• Eric will update/close-and-open-new ticket #978
• Greg will create a "flat pack" example and demo it at April 26 CDM
• Greg will finish writing technical documentation for mmCIF output
• TEF will check on status of rotamer library license
• Conrad will edit bundle code tutorial
• Conrad will continue working on ribbon tickets