Attendees

Eric, Greg, Zach, TomG, Scooter

On-site in N453.

Agenda

• ChimeraX
  • Make ChimeraX 1.4 release candidate now?
  • Update to Qt 6.3 for release or too dangerous?
  • No internet access when clicking on file history on Mac in some daily builds, ticket #6449
  • Are Windows open dialog crashes fixed?
  • 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?
  • Should we go to Python 3.10 in 1.5?

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

• Action items

Discussion

• Qt 6.3
  • Everyone agreed we should risk updating Qt 6.2 to 6.3 for ChimeraX 1.4.

• File history on Mac, "No internet access"
  • Daily build file history and quick start cxcmd links give "no internet access" error. Ticket #6449
  • Eric and Elaine and TomG and Zach all have seen this.
  • Happens sometimes with daily build, sometimes with developer build.
  • Looks like an uninitialized memory error.
  • Greg suggests there are Qt web engine scheme registration options for local file access and cross-origin requests.
  • Need to fix this bug for ChimeraX 1.4 release. Zach will work on it.

• Windows open dialog crashes
  • Have not received any of these crash reports in daily build with python 3.9.11, in ChimeraX about 10 days ago.
  • Should be pretty confident in 3 weeks (before release) if this has fixed it.

• ChimeraX 1.4 branch
  • Make branch next week April 28 if no new issues arise.

Action Items

• Update ChimeraX to Qt 6.3.0. Greg
• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Remove pkg-config prereq if it is not being used for builds. Tom