ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom

April 3, 2023

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.6 release progress.
• Arrow graphic for Mac dmg file
• Make Chimera release about same time as ChimeraX 1.6.
  • Opal will be shutdown on plato around mid-May, so release before that.
• Chimera/ChimeraX notarization scripts need updating, Apple deprecated altool command Fall 2023 ​#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

• Reading UTF-16 and UTF-32 files
  • Eric says SEQCROW gets errors reading utf-16 Orca files
  • bundle_info.xml declares the file is utf-8
  • Eric has made the utf-8 reading fallback to utf-16 and then utf-32 if unicode decode errors raised during read.
  • Should it go in 1.6 branch? Decided no, only daily build.

• ChimeraX 1.6 release progress
  • Release candidates started about a week ago.
  • Tom fixed blank gui panels on deiconify on Mac
  • Tom suppressed setDarkBorderToWindow warning at startup on Windows.
  • Zach looking at nfti brain scan data that displays as solid black in image style, 1e-9 scaled values.
  • Looked at all 1.6 milestoned tickets, none required for release.
  • Zach remilestoned / closed his 1.6 tickets.
  • Greg on vacation until next week.
  • Tom going on vacation in 2 weeks.
  • Release must happen before May 1 for R01 grant annual report.

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Action Items

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