ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

July 17, 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
• 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

• Mac dual display crash
  • Found Qt bug report and way to reproduce it
  • Fixed in Qt 6.5.1, daily build updated today to 6.5.1
  • Will announce on mailing list and twitter this bug is fixed in daily build.

• Toolshed submit changes never completes
  • Update from Django 3 to 4 during OS update broke some Toolshed gui behavior.
  • Greg will look at it after he finishes wynton file recovery script writing.

• Chimera tools to be ported
  • Went through the rest of the Chimera Tools menu deciding which tools should be ported.
  • Lists of tools to port and ones not to port are in ChimeraX Ideas milestone on Roadmap page.

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Action Items

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