wiki:Dev2022-3-27

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ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

March 27, 2023

Agenda

  • ChimeraX 1.6 release progress.
  • Chimera/ChimeraX notarization scripts need updating, Apple deprecated altool command Fall 2023 ​#7234
  • Arrow graphic for Mac dmg file
  • 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

Discussion

  • Deleting ChimeraX file history thumbnails
    • Eric suggests an Edit mode from context menu can show checkbuttons next to each thumbnail and clicking those can run a ChimeraX command to delete that entry.
  • Chimera Trac database locked
    • Greg sees Watson has load average of 30, possibly related.
    • Watson has 37 Modeller jobs running.
    • Greg saw other problems on Watson and will reboot it tonight.
  • Release candidates
    • ChimeraX 1.6 release candidates not yet made because Github changed their ssh private key. Then daily build lock file blocked builds. Zach has restarted builds.
    • Eric is fixing distance to centroids bug.
    • Zach is fixing new nfti file reader voxel size problem.
    • Tom will try to suppress setDarkBorderToWindow warning on Windows.
    • Tom will investigate Mac panels blank after deiconifying.
    • Greg is working on making a linux flatpak distribution.
  • Qscore tool from Tristan
    • Measures fit of each atom to density, method developed by Greg Pintilie, and used by EMDB.
    • Tom offered to put Tristan's new QScore tool into ChimeraX 1.6.
    • Needs user interface fixes and documentation.
    • Tristan has provided wheels on all 3 platforms.
  • Pandas
    • Zach removed unused and large pandas dependency from tcia_utils to keep size of ChimeraX distribution down.
  • Mac dmg file arrow to drag to Applications
    • Zach or Tom can look at adding arrow and Applications folder to ChimeraX dmg so users know not to run it directly from dmg.

Action Items

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