= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Eric

December 18, 2023

= Agenda =

* ChimeraX 1.7 release made?
* What ChimeraX 1.8 work/tickets should we prioritize for January?
* Ready to update Qt to 6.6 and Python to 3.11.latest?
* 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
  - Decided to make release as soon as Greg is able (today or tomorrow).
  - Elaine will write announcement for announce mailing list and Tom will tweet about release.

* University of Wyoming INBRE workshop
  - David Fay, associate director of NIH INBRE resource center at U Wyoming interested in a ChimeraX / AlphaFold workshop and help setting up AlphaFold for their users.

* Mac notarization
  - Eric got a new signing certificate for Mac notarization of ChimeraX and Chimera, now working.
  - Got an errSecInternalComponent message initially that required trying codesign by hand on console to see warning that it needed permission to use private key.  Then press Always Allow.

* Scenes
  - Eric has started working on scenes API for R01 grant.

* Backup tape robotics
  - Back tape robotics working again, but may break at any time.
  - Eric says it usually fails when swapping out tapes.

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