Attendees

• Zach, Eric, Elaine, Greg, TomG, Scooter, TomF

On-site Genentech Hall N436A

Agenda

• Greg presenting - replacing deprecated python packaging tools
• Review Action Items listed below

Discussion Notes

• Greg presented Modernizing ChimeraX Builds
  • TODO: link Greg's slides here.

• Next steps for build improvements
  • Scooter suggested making tickets for many of Greg's suggested upgrades
    • Remove distutils from bundle_builder so setuptools can be updated to latest version.
    • Rearrange source code organization so PyCharm IDE can find the files.
    • Document why our build system and code organization is the way it is.
    • some others -- refer to Greg's two slides with suggestions.
  • Continue thinking about some changes, like how to make core more minimal.

• Updating ChimeraX web site source control from SVN to Git
  • Scooter suggested we should move our SVN web site files to GitHub
  • Tom Ferrin asks who has time to do this possibly disruptive change
  • Elaine most often edits web site files and new organization should work well for her.

Action Items

• Move toolshed to it's own IP address and it's own Apache instance -- Greg/Scooter
• Set up toolshed test instance (UCSF only) -- Greg/Scooter
• Clean up VirtualHosts on our web servers -- Greg/Scooter
• Move webservices to https only and extensively test chimera to make sure it works
• Create self-signed certificate for webservices-test -- ongoing, Greg has run into a weird error
• Document new vpn setup on Linux -- Scooter
• Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn -- Scooter
• Audit followup -- Scooter