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 ​#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