Attendees

Eric, TomG, Greg, Zach

Agenda

• ChimeraX
  • Has 1.3 release candidate been made?
  • Git remove hydra, wsgi, llgr and other unused directories to avoid confusing new developers.
  • Do we need the pkg-config prereq on macOS if pkg-config can be installed from homebrew?
  • Should cxservices be in prereqs? bundles? or with backend server code?
  • Task termination at app quit
  • Rename ChimeraX.exe on Windows?
  • Should we remove the HTML tool tutorial and promote only Qt GUIs?
• Chimera
• Action items

Discussion

• ChimeraX 1.3 release
  • Download page javascript needs updating to show release candidates
  • Plan is to make first release candidate monday night
  • Release candidates will be made nightly
  • Test on macOS Monterey (or latest beta) before release.

• Version checking
  • Currently check for new ChimeraX release will ask every week if user does not install it.
  • Some users may not want to install new release, e.g. because ISOLDE not available or other reasons.
  • Greg will add checkbutton to not show the update notice for this new release again.

• Git repository cleanup
  • Ok to remove hydra, wsgi, llgr. TomG will do it and make list of other possible removals, e.g. core/unused, prereqs/pkg-config, prereqs/llvm.

• cxservices code location
  • Move cxservices from prereqs to backend repository (separate repository because it reveals details of server configs).

• Chimera 1.16 release
  • Make chimera release after chimerax 1.3 out
  • No release candidates
  • Blast fixed, other smaller fixes.
  • Test on macOS monterey release

Action Items