= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg

July 24, 2023

= Agenda =

* Should ChimeraX 1.7 use Qt 6.5 which requires macOS 11?  Ticket #9421
* 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 [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 =

* Drop macOS 10.15 and 10.14 for ChimeraX 1.7?
  - Qt 6.5 requires a minimum macOS 11
  - Current ChimeraX 1.6 supports macOS 10.15 and 10.14
  - Should we updated to Qt 6.5 and drop macOS 10 support?
  - Qt 6.5 fixes a crash reported almost every day on Mac with dual displays (Qt 6.3 also fixes it.  Only Qt 6.4 crashes.)
  - 8% of Mac Trac bug reports are macOS 10.15 and 10.14
  - Greg looked at check for updates logs, also appears 8% of Mac users are coming from 10.15 or 10.14.
  - Want to look at check for updates logs to see if 10.15 and 10.14 users have updated to ChimeraX 1.6
  - Elaine's office iMac is at 10.15 and cannot be updated (2012 model)
  - Eric's office laptop is at 10.15 and may be updateable (2015 model) and Elaine could use it until a new machine is purchased.
  - Choice is between Qt 6.5 and macOS 11 requirement, or revert to Qt 6.3 and macOS 10.14 minimum required.
  - Look at check for updates fraction on current ChimeraX 1.6 before deciding.

* ChimeraX manuscript
  - Elaine is editing and trimming, removed 300 words today.
  - Discussed what PAE domains were used in fitting section.
  - Discussed removing fitmap discussion -- leave in since it is widely cited and is only discussed for a few sentences.

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