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 ​#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