Attendees

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

Agenda

• Action items
• Chimera 1.13 release
• ChimeraX
  • Documentation and tutorial strategy
  • Testing
  • Initial display and nucleic acid coloring
  • Linux installers
  • Release 0.7
    • Review ​milestone priorities
  • Wildcard/regex/case matching in commands
  • What to show in log when opening model? Citation? Title? ticket #1030

Discussion

• Chimera 1.13
  • Wait 3 weeks for feedback
  • Target June 22 for release
• ChimeraX
  • Documentation and tutorial strategy
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be placed into docs directory in package
    • Do we want to reorganize how documentation is stored, both for bundle-specific and general (e.g., tutorials)
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be kept in bundle
  • Testing
    • All bundles have a "make test" target which runs test*.cxc and test*.py
    • There should be at least "test.cxc" for testing commands to detect simple errors like syntax errors
    • Nightly builds will call "make test" after completing build
      • possible outcomes: no errors, build okay/test failed, build failed
      • latter two should have links to build output
  • Initial display
    • Simpler, more stylized or more detailed initial representations?
    • How many residue-count levels should there be?
    • Below a certain threshold, models are "small molecules"
    • Two level initial display of nucleotides styles: all atoms (with filled rings when available), and ladder. Assumption is that we will also develop some UI (auto-displayed tool or set of toolbar buttons) to make it easier for user to change from default style.
    • See #1157
  • Nucleotide colors, see #1156
  • Linux installers for ChimeraX
    • Greg is working on Debian (apt-get, deb) packaging
    • Make "rpm" and "apt-get" with dependencies
      • Check for available dependent packages on CentOS 7, Fedora 28, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04
    • Also make tar file for desperate independently minded users

Action Items

• Conrad and Greg will figure out how to organize documentation so that the primary copy stays in bundles but editing is not too cumbersome
• Conrad will create ticket listing stable APIs
• Done: Conrad will close finished tickets
• Greg will create Chimera 1.13 candidate release
• Done: #1150 Conrad will create ticket for searching documentation
• Conrad will document bundle documentation location in tutorials
• Conrad will edit bundle code tutorial
• Conrad will continue working on ribbon tickets