Attendees

Eric, TomG, Greg, Zach

Agenda

• ChimeraX
  • Ready to make final 1.3 release?
  • Make ChimeraX 1.4 roadmap.
  • Consider migrating Trac issue tracking to Jira for better reliability.
  • Is Windows crash reporting ever useful? Should we disable it?
  • Should we remove pywin32 (20 MBytes) and wmi used only to report computer model in bug reporter on Windows? Ticket #5528
  • Time to update ChimeraX prereq pypi package versions.
  • Task termination at app quit
  • Rename ChimeraX.exe on Windows?

• Chimera
  • Chimera 1.16 release.
  • Should Chimera 1.16 be last Windows 7 release? Require Windows 10 after?

• Action items

Discussion

• ChimeraX 1.3 release
  • Greg fixed "remind me later" switch for new version check a few days ago.
  • Zach fixed blast bug in past few days
  • Eric has new bug, antechamber not working on windows.
    • Needed for uncommon case of non-standard residues for coulombic surface coloring.
    • Identified by Tristan and needed for his ISOLDE parameterization code.
    • Needs several cygwin libraries added to distribution.
    • Eric will add libraries and test today and tomorrow.
    • Need windows test machine without cygwin. Use new HP desktop.
  • Try to make 1.3 release on Monday if antechamber fix is verified.

• Windows crash reports
  • Python faulthandler gives tens of spurious fatal error messages on windows.
  • Spurious messages are when open dialog or save dialog shown.
  • Error code 0x80... is about remote procedure calls failing
  • Only gets reported when real crash happens, usually "access violation".
  • Access violation crash usually only gives one line Python stack trace which is usually useless.
  • Need to investigate if this is usual faulthandler behavior on Windows.
  • Need full Python traceback for this Windows crash reporting to be useful.

• Alternative issue tracking
  • Zach tried github issues and Jira for ChimeraX issue tracking.
  • Neither allowed user input without an account.
  • Plan is for Scooter to try to improve reliability of our Trac ticket system by switching sqlite to mysql backend.

• Chimera 1.16 release
  • Is MultiFit stil in Chimera 1.15? No it was removed. But older Chimera have it.
  • May want to shutdown multifit server on plato to avoid runaway jobs impairing server.
  • Plan is still to release 1.16 after ChimeraX 1.3 is released.
  • May have 1.16 be last Windows 7 release, and switch daily builds to Windows 10 since Windows 7 is 2 years past end of life with no security fixes.

Action Items

• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Remove pkg-config prereq if it is not being used for builds. Tom