Attendees

• Eric, Greg, TomF, Conrad, Scooter, Elaine

Agenda

• Action items
• ChimeraX
  • PyQt license needs to be renewed soon
  • Toolbar and button bar unification
  • Write mmCIF files while keeping unused tables
  • Manager/provider toolshed functionality (#1661)
  • RBVI bundles on toolshed
    • Change build process to trim down list of bundles in standard release while still testing toolshed-only bundles
  • Stable APIs, #922
  • Documentation strategy
  • 1.0 features (roadmap)
• Possibilities for Eric's SOW

Discussion

• ChimeraX
  • PyQt license needs to be renewed soon
    • Our license expires on April 27th
    • We currently have a 3-user license and the renewal fee is $960.
    • Verify that 5.12.1 fixes browser history bug
    • Greg will build and test latest release for known problems
    • If there are no problems, then consider moving to PySide2
    • PySide2 (which requires 5.12) may be an adequate replacement for PyQt
  • Toolbar and button bar unification
    • Add comments to toolbar-unification
    • Greg will implement ribbon in Qt
    • New ribbon UI code will allow tools to use ribbon widget
      • Call it tabbed toolbar instead of "ribbon"
  • Write complete mmCIF files
    • Tables that we read but do not change
      • Done
    • Tables that we read and change
      • BUG: Need to keep additional information like sheet, helix registration, h-bond class, etc for tables that we read
      • BUG: Need to generate sheet information when ksdssp is run
      • Atomic coordinates and sequence information
        • Must write new version
      • Secondary structure, h-bonds
      • What tables does RCSB/PDB deposition require? Do we need to preserve information from input file if they get overridden by the deposition process?
    • Tables that we do not read
      • Squirrel away or reread on write
      • How big are the unused tables?
  • Manager/provider toolshed functionality (#1661)
    • Conrad will work on this
  • 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
    • Need to segregate "standard" bundles from "extra" bundles
  • 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

• Greg will test latest PyQt/Qt release
• Greg will find out the fraction of mmCIF files that are not used by ChimeraX (by percentage and by absolute size)
• Conrad will create ticket for extending mmCIF writing to include missing tables
• Conrad will create tickets for BUGS listed above (if they don't already exist)
  • see ChimeraX #1021 and possibly 1489 (and Chimera tickets 325 and 12200 and possibly 10113 are all along these same lines)