= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Scooter

July 10, 2023

= Agenda =

* Describe changes in Updates GUI.
* Toolshed website spinning progress never goes away.
* Mac dual display crash
* mmCIF out of memory
* Update ChimeraX prereqs, PyQt 6.5.1
* ChimeraX Protein Science paper progress
* Chimera 1.17.3 release (FFmpeg)
* ChimeraX 1.7 roadmap
* Release initial ChimeraX library on PyPi or Conda
* Chimera/ChimeraX notarization scripts need updating, Apple deprecated altool command Fall 2023 [https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/7234 #7234]
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.
* Install Splunk on plato to monitor web services.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7?
* Toolshed bundle requirement checking
* Discuss possible OpenMM and VR improvements for Tristan and Altos to pursue


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= Discussion =

* Chimera 1.17.3
  - ffmpeg encoding fixed

* Mac dual display, crash waking from sleep
  - found Qt bug report with same traceback, says it happens waking from sleep, possibly after external monitor disconnected.
  - We should try to reproduce using external monitor and sleeping.
  - Update Qt to 6.5

* mmCIF out of memory
  - If error still happens in daily build put sanity check in to limit Windows memory mapping size.

* Chimera tools to port to ChimeraX
  - We listed Chimera tools we may still want to port to ChimeraX in Roadmap Ideas milestone.
  - We also listed Chimera tools we do not plan to port.

* ChimeraX 1.7 roadmap
  - Chose some goals for ChimeraX 1.7 release.
  - Release planned for end of 2023.

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= Action Items =
  - Present github continuous integration tutorial.  Zach
  - Beta releases on Toolshed - make ticket for this. Greg