Attendees

Eric, TomG, Greg, Zach

Agenda

• ChimeraX
  • Update to Qt 6.2
  • Update all prereqs
  • Make ChimeraX 1.4 roadmap.
  • Upgrade Trac to mysql for better reliability.
  • Is Windows crash reporting ever useful? Should we disable it? Will Qt 6.2 fix spurious file dialog errors?
  • Should we remove pywin32 (20 MBytes) and wmi used only to report computer model in bug reporter on Windows? Ticket #5528
  • Task termination at app quit
  • Rename ChimeraX.exe on Windows?

• Chimera
  • Switch Chimera daily builds from Windows 7 to Windows 10

• Action items

Discussion

• Qt 6.2
  • Tom built Qt 6 on ChimeraX on Mac, Linux, Windows and tested. Has been using Qt6 ChimeraX for a few weeks.
  • Greg will put Qt 6 preview builds on download page.
  • We will notify developers: Tristan, Tony, Ben Webb about Qt 6 version.
  • We will also use the Qt 6 version.
  • Test for 2 weeks to a month then make normal daily build use Qt 6.
  • Will not make licensed wheels for Apple M1 until needed.

• Update prereqs
  • Eric, Greg and Tom updated ChimeraX prereqs to current versions.
  • Have suds-jurko compile error breaking linux nightly builds, Greg looking into it. Maybe pip update caused it.
  • Greg would like to put security hash in pip requirements.txt.

• Web services
  • Eric asks Zach about status of web services. Can Eric use it for alignment services now or in a week?
  • Zach plans to release it after testing on testwebservice backend machine.
  • Zach will write up docs before giving web services developer meeting presentation in two weeks as requested by Scooter.

• Git merge master and develop?
  • Should we try to merge master into develop? Zach asked.
  • There are commits on the 1.3 branch and in master which is at 1.3 which do not belong in develop.
  • Eric says attribute registration code in 1.3 branch diverged from develop, as an example.
  • Decided to leave master branch (which says it is ahead of develop by hundreds of commits, and behind by hundreds) as is.
  • Greg may look into how git flow is supposed to handle this.
  • When a commit is made on a release branch (e.g. 1.3) that belongs also in 1.4 then the developer has to also commit it to develop branch.

Action Items

• Present web services overview at Jan 27 developer meeting. Zach
• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Remove pkg-config prereq if it is not being used for builds. Tom