Attendees

Eric, Greg, Zach, TomG

Held over zoom

Agenda

• General
  • Should we have more frequent meetings?

• ChimeraX
  • Build improvements by Zach
  • 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?
  • Should we decouple the core bundle version number from the ChimeraX release version?
  • How best to backport M1 support from native-packaging to 1.4 release branch

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

• Action items

Discussion

• 1.4 Release
  • Decided to release ChimeraX 1.4, out tomorrow

• Mac M1 port
  • Discussed whether Mac M1 port will be in 1.5 or 1.4.1. Could be either.
  • Zach still working on universal builds.

• Weekly developer meetings
  • Zach asks if we should have weekly developer meetings.
  • Decided we will call additional developer meetings Monday at 2 pm as needed.
  • Zach will tell us about build system changes Monday June 13 at 2 pm.

Action Items

• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Remove pkg-config prereq if it is not being used for builds. Tom