= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

March 13, 2023

= Agenda =

* Release candidate schedule for end of April ChimeraX 1.6 release.
* Should we accept 10% bigger ChimeraX from Qt 6.4 and pandas?
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.
* Install Splunk on plato to monitor web services.
* Make Chimera release this year?
  - Opal will be shutdown on plato around mid-May, so release before that.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7?
* Toolshed bundle requirement checking
* Discuss possible OpenMM and VR improvements for Tristan and Altos to pursue
* Arrow graphic for Mac dmg file

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= Discussion =

* ChimeraX 1.6 release
  - Greg will branch and make release candidates Wednesday March 22.
  - Release will be made before May 1 NIH R01 annual report deadline.

* Chimera release
  - Will make Chimera 1.17 release about same time as ChimeraX release.
  - New release will have web services that don't use Opal.  Those have been in use in Chimera daily builds for several weeks now.
  - New release will have session converter that handles volumes.  Tom will add that.
  - This may be the last Chimera release.
  - Greg asked if we should turn of Chimera daily builds after release.
  - Decided we should let Chimera daily builds run until hardware or software problems stop them.

* Pandas
  - PyPi package pandas got into ChimeraX about a month ago as a dicom package dependency.
  - It is quite large (50-100 MB?).
  - Zach thinks it is not being used by our DICOM code and will try to remove it.

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= Action Items =
  - Present github continuous integration tutorial.  Zach
  - Beta releases on Toolshed - make ticket for this. Greg