= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Scooter, Zach, Greg, Tom, Eric

December 11, 2023

= Agenda =

* Are we ready to make ChimeraX 1.7 release?
* What work to propose for next NIAID contract.
* 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
* Create Grafana dashboards to monitor web services.
* ViewDockX port to Qt progress
* How long should code commits be added to release branch after release?
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes for 1.18 release in Spring 2024.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.

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= Discussion =

* ChimeraX 1.7 release
  - Plan is to make release Wednesday if Greg has registration interface working when adding users to announce mailing list.
  - Eric tested Greg's mailing list registration from ChimeraX, did not work using his Google email, no invitation to join, claimed he was already subscribed which is not the case.
  - Greg tested list registration cgi script standalone and it worked.
  - Greg will investigate why ChimeraX interface to add to list does not work.
  - Chimera and ChimeraX are both using the same CGI script to add users to announce list.
  - Discussed why the new method requires sending an invitation email.  Greg says it is best practices to confirm that the email address is valid.  We agreed.

* Safe mode for builds
  - User installed bundles can break building ChimeraX.
  - Would like safe mode to ignore the user installed bundles.
  - This was a 1.7 ticket but has been remilestoned for 1.8.
  - Eric requests this get fixed soon, not waiting until 1.8 release.
  - Currently safe mode ignores bundle custom initialization routines but it looks at dependencies of user installed bundles and fails if dependencies are missing.
  - Greg will look at improving safe mode to not use any user installed bundles.

* Backup tape robotics
  - Eric working on finicky backup tape robotics.

* Tetrahedron residue representation
  - Tom testing Inner Space VR demonstration from Helen Berman.  Application does not start.
  - Also looking at tetrahedron computing ChimeraX Python developed by Jitin Singla's lab.  No command version available.

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= Action Items =