Attendees

Zach, Tom Goddard, Scooter, Greg, Eric, Elaine, Selina, Tom Ferrin

April 18, 2024

Agenda

• Greg, ​work in progress

Discussion Notes

• Certificate Authority Authorization
  • Greg adding DNS records to address penetration test discovery of no CAA record for wynton.ucsf.edu domain.
  • Only allow Let's Encrypt

• Wynton penetration test
  • Got "A" grade for external access
  • Got "B" grade for internal access

• ReadCIF library
  • Improved ReadCIF library to handle PDB-Redo with weird column alignment.

• Python limited API
  • Tried make ChimeraX RealSense bundle work with any Python 3 version.
  • Involves compiling with limited api environment variable (?) or macro so that only portable Python APIs are allowed.

• PyQt vs PySide
  • May want to switch PyQt6 to PySide6 to avoid annual $1000 license fees.
  • Will require long testing period.
  • May be able to use qtpy shim.
  • We use our own Qt shim for Qt 5 to Qt 6 migration before qtpy shim supported Qt 6.

• R01 annual report
  • Due May 15
  • Tom Ferrin will send old report to Elaine to get updated usage and citation stats.
  • Would be good to have ChimeraX 1.8 release soon to mention in report.

• Plato backups not happening
  • plato backup machine is dead so backups are not being done.
  • Not sure when plato backup will be revived, but hopefully in weeks.
  • Scooter suggested we could use "rustic" which does incremental backups to backup plato home directories to SSD. Did not decide to do that.

• Selina grad school
  • Selina is going to USC in the Fall.

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