= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg, Scooter

April 10, 2023

= Agenda =

* ChimeraX 1.6 release progress.
* Make Chimera release about same time as ChimeraX 1.6.
  - Opal will be shutdown on plato around mid-May, so release before that.
* Python updating plan, binary releases only available 1.5 years after each release.
* Chimera/ChimeraX notarization scripts need updating, Apple deprecated altool command Fall 2023 [https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/7234 #7234]
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.
* Install Splunk on plato to monitor web services.
* 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


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= Discussion =

* ChimeraX 1.6 release
  * mmCIF out of memory bug reports
    - There have been 3 mmCIF out of memory bug reports with 1.6 release candidates, possibly just 2 different users.
    - There were 3 older mmCIF out of memory reports.
    - All reports on Windows.
    - The mmCIF files with pdb identifiers are not large
  * Tom Ferrin observed a 3 minute hang on ChimeraX release candidate startup with 3 timeout messages logged to cxservices checking for ChimeraX updates.  Greg will look into it.

* Chimera release
  - Ready to release.  Plan is to release on Thursday.  Greg will do it.
  - Eric made a fix to session exporter last week.
  - Wynton update to Rocky 8 is being postponed until Fall, but we still will update plato to Rocky 8, possibly in the May 1 day service outage.

* Wynton and BeeGFS
  - BeeGFS will have a point release in May 7.2.5 to 7.2.9.
  - BeeGFS 7.3.3 fixes a known hang on Wynton but will not be updated until Fall.

* CGL email
  - CGL email will use ProofPoint filtering in coming months.
  - Should get better spam filtering.
  - Still looking at how to examine rejected email since ProofPoint sometimes has marked legitimate email as spam.

* SVN web service
  - We have an SVN web service, original for Chimera running.
  - IT not happy about it since it is so old.
  - Chimera source distribution switched to tar file many months ago.
  - Can shut down svn web service.

* NIAID new contract
  - Still have not heard when new NIAID contract will start.  Waiting for GuideHouse.
  - Scooter will talk to Nada Midani soon if we receive no info.
  - Uncertain whether we have Thursday NIAID meeting.  Phil Cruz did not respond to suggestion to reschedule last week's meeting to this week.

* Chimera source code on github
  - Greg suggested putting Chimera source code on github.
  - Scooter does not think we should put effort into this.
  - Greg says he is putting MidasPlus source code in github as side project.

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