Attendees

Eric, TomG, Greg, Zach

Agenda

• Action items
• ChimeraX
  • Update 1.3 release roadmap, adding completed stuff, moving other stuff to 1.4.
  • Web service discontinued status checking for AlphaFold predict.
  • Task termination at app quit
  • VirtualGL documentation #4783
  • Rename ChimeraX.exe on Windows?
  • Should we remove the HTML tool tutorial and promote only Qt GUIs?
• Chimera

Discussion

• Web service status
  • Query URL rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/status/AlphaFoldColabV1.html and if present then show the returned html as an error which can explain service is no longer available.
  • Discussed posting version of AlphaFold tool. Greg mentions this will give slower response. Also more complex.
  • Discussed having REST query to update url for a web service. Maybe too complex.

• Session version numbers for bundle
  • atomiclib needs to use minSessionVersion, maxSessionVersion in bundle_info.html to specify if session can be read.
  • Need documentation of these bundle info values.

• Git usage
  • Zach says master branch is not up to 1.2.5, should be.
  • Discussion of how we use git branches
  • Zach using maggot in emacs to simplify git use

• Code style and linting
  • Greg talked about use flake8 for checking Python for common errors
  • Zach talked a about "language system" for scanning code to give function doc strings while coding, and check style and common errors.

Action Items

• Put download web page checksums on separate page. Zach
• Propose registering only once at group meeting, see if TomF agrees - Everyone.
• Add 1.3 goals to roadmap for next group meeting - Everyone.
• Get cron jobs to build mailing list site map for google indexing working - Greg.
• Make Windows build redirect installer build to separate log so password not shown - Greg.
• Make Updates tool started from menu Tools / Utilities / Updates show only updates, not all available bundles - Greg
• Change milestone on all 1.2 enhancement tickets that won't be in 1.2 to milestone 1.3 - Greg
• Check that all Toolshed bundles that install in 1.2 actually start -- add core<1.2 dependency to those that fail - Greg