Attendees

• Eric, Greg, TomG, Elaine, Conrad, Scooter TomF, Devon, Mo

Agenda

• Action items
• Chimera
  • 1.13.1 release
• ChimeraX
  • Wildcard/regex/case matching in atomspec (Eric)
  • RBVI bundles on toolshed
  • Documentation strategy

Discussion

• Chimera 1.13.1
  • Changes include - fixing
    • proline rotamer
    • align chains
    • independent rotation in scenes
    • vina command argument documentation
    • vina command/gui inconsistency
    • local executables with whitespace in path
    • major addh bug fix
  • Linux installation instructions still inaccurate (installer name wrong, ​ticket)
  • Hold off on release for next macOS release
    • Chimera does not work right on Mojave (macOS 10.14) with
      • buttons not showing at all or with no text
    • Updating to Tk 8.6.7 (version used by ActiveTcl) yields:
      • atomspec balloons not showing
      • gesture events crashing Chimera
      • buttons have small padding
      • Windows does not build
      • but buttons show on Mojave!
    • Plan moving forward
      • we have patches for above-listed bugs (except Windows compilation)
      • Option 1: keep using current version of Tk.
        • tell users don't upgrade to Mojave or resize every top-level window. No, not a real option.
      • Option 2: use current version and fix button problem.
      • Option 3: use new version - one of 8.6.7, 8.6.8 (RC3?) which is the latest "release", or repository version.
        • unknown whether new "features" will appear
      • Actions:
        • Revert to current Tk for both 1.13.1 candidate and daily build (TomG)
        • Send announcement to chimera-users and chimera-announce warning users to not upgrade to Mojave/resize windows (Eric)
        • Fix up download page (Eric/Elaine)
        • Apply Tk 8.6.8 to development machine only until most patches have been applied and work (Eric/TomG)
        • Get Tk 8.6.8 to build on Windows (Greg)
• ChimeraX
  • Move to Python 3.7
    • Update to latest numpy
    • Update to latest msgpack using pip (if possible)
  • Need to move to PyQt5 5.11 (after Python 3.7) to get Vulkan support
    • Windows installer does not build
    • After 3.7
  • Putting RBVI bundles on toolshed
    • Proposal (Conrad)
      • Sync built wheels to plato repository in make process
      • Provide web page to display "released" and "unreleased" bundles in repository and allow (authenticated) users to mark selected bundles for release
      • Provide make target to release all bundles to toolshed when making a release
      • Extract documentation when bundle is released and install as web pages
  • Documentation and tutorial strategy
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be placed into docs directory in package
    • Bundle-specific documentation should be kept in bundle
    • Question
      • Elaine: when updating documentation, how do you usually review the changes?
    • Very rough proposal (Conrad)
      • Move all documentation into bundle docs directories
      • Change top-level docs directory to:
        • developer (manually edited docs)
        • user
          • non-bundle (manually edited docs, e.g., tutorials, indices, intro, etc.)
          • bundle (generated symlinks to bundle docs directories to provide easier access when editing)
      • Change procedure on how ChimeraX documentation web pages are built on plato (see next topic)

Action Items

• Conrad will create ticket listing stable APIs