Attendees

• Eric, Greg, TomG, Elaine, Conrad

Agenda

• Action items
• Chimera
  • 1.13.1 release
  • Bad installation instructions
• ChimeraX
  • Linux installers
  • distlib vs modern Python packaging
  • Wildcard/regex/case matching in atomspec (Eric)
• ChimeraX 0.8 goals

Discussion

• Chimera 1.13.1
  • Changes include - fixing proline rotamer, align chains, independent rotation in scenes
  • Greg fixed bad hyperlink when update on Mac is available for download
  • Greg put up candidate release
  • Greg will widen Chimera check-update dialog so dot release link will still be visible
  • Eric and Greg very kindly volunteered to fix the bad links and contents of the installation instructions
• ChimeraX
  • Documentation and tutorial strategy
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be placed into docs directory in package
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be kept in bundle
  • Linux installers for ChimeraX
    • ChimeraX 0.7 release deb files for Ubuntu are ready and will be added to download page
    • Redhat/CentOS rpm files are close and 0.7 files can be built using the 0.7 git tag
  • distlib vs modern Python packaging
    • We could not use latest setuptools/wheel/pip because we use distlib in toolshed code
    • Update all ChimeraX-Core dependencies from 0.7 to 0.8 once we move from distlib to pkg_resources
  • Need to move to PyQt5 5.11 to get Vulkan support
    • May also minimize CSS warnings in log
    • Greg will build installers
  • Move to Python 3.7 after Conrad's toolshed changes are done

Action Items

• Conrad will make sure that ChangeLog is up to date
• Greg will widen Chimera check-update dialog so dot release link will still be visible
• Eric and Greg will fix the bad links and contents of the installation instructions
• Greg will build installers
• Greg will fix bad hyperlink when update is available for download
• Greg will put up candidate Chimera 1.13.1 release afterwards
• 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