ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Scooter, Zach, Greg, Tom, Eric

December 4, 2023

Agenda

• Release candidate progress.
• Review ChimeraX 1.7 roadmap and tickets.
• 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
  • Aim to have 1.7 ready for release at next Monday's ChimeraX meeting.
  • This Thursday group meeting get report on whether Greg and Zach have fixed two unresolved 1.7 tickets.
  • Reviewed 1.7 tickets
  • Decided flatpak should not hold up release. Can put out 1.7.1 flatpak distribution later once it has been tested in daily builds for some time.
  • Signing up for chimerax announce in ChimeraX registration gives 404 error. Fixing this has high priority.
  • Zach will check in patch to fix user-installed bundles interfering with builds.
  • Two of Greg's tickets in feedback (session restore problem, mmcif problem) have no response for 4 weeks and should be closed.
  • Toolshed problem with dependencies with multiple architectures will not be tied to 1.7 release (probably only involves Toolshed server side).
  • Zach's 3 1.7 tickets that he does not plan to do for 1.7 should have 1.7 milestone removed.
  • Zach has additional dicom fix for 1.7 he will check in today.

• NIAID next contract
  • Looked over copy of last NIAID statement of work before we cut items.
  • Main categories of work: ChimeraX improvements for NIAID, NIH 3D pipeline, VR, medical imaging probably remain the same.
  • Discussed whether to add implementing a docking service, possibly with Shoichet lab. Compute resources may be limited.
  • Discussed work on medical image presets and rendering capabilities.
  • Discussed standalone VR vs PC VR for medical imaging.

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