Attendees

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

Agenda

• Action items
• ChimeraX
  • After 0.8 release
    • Update Qt/PyQt
    • ChimeraX finding packages in strange places
  • Should "open folder" be a menu item under File
  • Toolbar and button bar unification
  • RBVI bundles on toolshed
    • Change build process to trim down list of bundles in standard release while still testing toolshed-only bundles
  • Remove support for session v1 and v2 from daily build
  • Stable APIs, #922
  • Documentation strategy
  • 1.0 features (roadmap)

Discussion

• ChimeraX
  • After 0.8 release
    • Qt/PyQt5
      • PySide2 browser-lack-of-history bug report was closed (fixed?)
    • ChimeraX finding packages in strange places
      • Do not use python setup.py install
      • Use python setup.py bdist_wheel and then install using pip
  • Toolbar and button bar unification
    • Greg sent out icon design guidelines for ​Linux and ​Google, but they are not applicable for our goal of making our icons consistent because it would take a lot of time and effort
      • Table the effort for making existing icons look "nicer"
    • Still looking for organization ideas
      • Photoshop-style grouping button bars are nice, but frequently one wants to switch among buttons within the same group
      • Mechanism should be supported by Qt or HTML
      • User-configurable toolbars
      • What about MSWord-style ribbons or UIs from other applications?
    • Will we address this before 1.0?
  • Putting RBVI bundles on toolshed
    • Want separate run-time vs build-time dependencies in bundle_info.xml
    • Visit the bundle-release page (from intranet) and release your bundles
    • Conrad is working on making bundles not install-able for incompatible ChimeraX versions
    • Need to segregate "standard" bundles from "extra" bundles
  • Remove support for session v1 and v2 from daily build
    • Replace old session reading code with message of "Use ChimeraX 0.8 to rewrite session to v3"
    • Remove warning about session format possibly changing when this works
  • What happens when restoring a session that uses an uninstalled tool?
    • There is a manifest of bundles referenced by session file
    • Need to detect missing bundles
      • Show warning or offer to install bundle?
      • Restore rest of session or give up or ask user?
      • What about gui vs nogui?
        • Currently, tools are skipped in nogui mode
        • Might get unnecessary warning about missing bundle that won't be used for restoring session in nogui mode
  • Stable APIs
    • See action items
  • Move to github
    • Move to private RBVI github project
      • Easier to share with collaborators with github admin tools
      • "pull requests" should simplify enhancement/fix submission
      • will not happen that soon

Action Items

• Conrad will look at "git flow" for common practice
  • ​https://datasift.github.io/gitflow/IntroducingGitFlow.html
  • Conrad use "git flow" to release 0.8 as a test run
• Greg will implement documentation virtual overlay symlink target #1390
• Conrad will look for existing UI toolkit that implement Office-style ribbons. or some other well known app
• Greg will look for "standard" icon sets to replace our home-brewed ones