= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom, Greg, Mikhail

August 28, 2023

= Agenda =

* Toolshed website spinning progress never goes away.
* mmCIF out of memory
* Update ChimeraX prereqs
* Release initial ChimeraX library on PyPi or Conda
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.
* Install Grafana 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
* Wording of LGPL notice / which files to change

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= Discussion =

* ViewDockX
  - Mikhail asked about best way to learn Qt toolkit.
  - Suggested Qt docs, inspecting existing ChimeraX tools.
  - Eric gave tips about basic tool layout.
  - Mikhail is using git clone of chimerax repository, and BlastProtein tool which has a table as an example.

* LGPL ChimeraX library license
  - Not clear who will create new text and modify code files for new license.

* Toolshed problems
  - Search is broken, gives traceback, reported by Tristan.  Greg will try to fix today.
  - Tom mentions hard to find tools on web page except by showing them all.  Have lots of categories with just a few tools each.
  - Eric suggests the update tool needs to indicate what problems an update fixes.  Currently the tool only receives version numbers, name and category for updates.
  - Developer changing toolshed pages appears to hang on submit.  Problem caused by Django update.  Greg has not looked.
  - Tom asks if we should be considering a toolshed distribution mechanism that does not require so much maintenance and could be taken over by Tristan or others in the future.  Greg suggests possibly just use PyPi.

* !StrudelScore
  - !StrudelScore developer email is dead and core < 1.6 requirement prevents it from running in current ChimeraX even though it works in current ChimeraX.
  - How can we fix this?  Could fork the git repository, see if code is the same as current wheel, and create a new wheel that works with ChimeraX 1.x.
  - Then do take over StrudelScore toolshed ownership and update?  Or make a new Toolshed submission.
  - No decision yet on how to proceed.
  - Abandoned bundles on toolshed will be common.

* mmCIF out of memory error
  - Eric says we still have no mmCIF out of memory reports in daily build, so possibly it is fixed.

* Grafana web service monitoring
  - Greg installed grafana on plato nodes.
  - Some additional packages needed to make web pages that show web service usage.
  - Zach will provide Greg a list of what packages need to be installed.

* Web services number of workers
  - Agreed at previous meeting to increase number of web service workers from 10 to 20.
  - Greg has updated to 20 workers.

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