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