= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Greg, Zach, Tom, Eric

November 6, 2023

= Agenda =

* Make branch and release candidate?
* Review ChimeraX 1.7 roadmap and tickets.
* Worm ribbon implementation, ticket #9942
* Tristan Toolshed install dependency issues, Ticket #9861, blocking Clipper update #9786
* Tristan, bundle version number not reported correctly.  Ticket #9873
* Log slow to update when it gets long, Tristan ticket #9909
* Install Grafana on plato to monitor web services.
* ViewDockX port to Qt progress
* How long should code commits be added to release branch after release?
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.

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= Discussion =

* Wynton maintenance
  - Wynton still down.
  - Updating CPU nodes to Rocky 8
  - Updating beegfs meta-data servers for more disk space
  - Eric says backups are getting cryptic insufficient disk space message.

* Release candidates
  - Eric has C++ atomic change that needs a few hours more work then he will be ready to branch.
  - Eric will tell Greg later today when he is ready to branch and Greg will branch and setup release candidate builds.
  - Zach and Tom have nothing holding up branching.

* mmCIF reading chain problem
  - Eric and Greg discussed a problem where wrong chain description was added to a chain and some chains got no description.

* WSL Scipion developers
  - The Sciopion developers who were having some troubles with ChimeraX on Windows System for Linux seem satisfied now.
  - They were writing ChimeraX scripts with absolute paths but needed different paths for Windows vs WSLinux.
  - Tom told them how to use relative paths in their scripts.

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= Action Items =