Attendees

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

Agenda

• Action items
• ChimeraX
  • Tabbed toolbar
  • Manager/provider toolshed functionality (#1661)
  • How to handle session problems
  • Discuss 0.9 release
  • 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)

Discussion

• ChimeraX
  • Tabbed toolbar
    • Are old toolbars still in 0.9?
      • First option: remove old toolbars and launch tabbed toolbar in place of old toolbars in autostart (Eric)
        • Will need to remove "Tool" from bundle_info.xml of old toolbars but leave functions used by tabbed toolbar (Greg)
    • Is this the official name?
      • Documentation name is "Toolbar".
    • Instead of single button, can also have group of buttons in a dropdown
      • Dropdowns get clipped on Windows (Greg)
    • Deploy new icons (Elaine, Greg)
    • Fix spacing issues (Greg)
    • Stretch goals for 0.9 in priority order
      • Switching to manager-provider paradigm, which would work better if mouse modes also use manager-provider
        • When new tool adds mouse mode, it should show up in toolbar
      • Will add "radio-button" style for mouse modes
  • Manager/provider toolshed functionality (#1661)
    • Parts of preset functionality uses this
    • Need HTTP scheme manager for PyQt 5.12
      • Conrad implemented the manager and initial providers
      • Whoever does the PyQt 5.12 migration will use the data
    • Add non-GUI manager option (Conrad)
    • User-customizable preset will use this (Eric, stretch goal)
  • How to handle session problems
    • What to do when there is a problem saving the session
      • Change warning into error but still writes session file
        • Need to propagate error so session can be removed
      • Post-0.9, make best effort to save and restore incomplete sessions
    • 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
  • Discuss 0.9 release
    • See Roadmap
  • 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
  • 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 create ticket for extending mmCIF writing to include missing tables
• Notify Shoichet group that stereo is not working on host vive (TomG)