ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Piet, Greg, Tom, Eric, Zach

October 21, 2024

Agenda

• Bundle Builder: #15897: Core include files not found
• ChimeraX 1.9 release candidate date, October 21
• Clean-up ChimeraX 1.9 roadmap wiki page
• Work in progress reports
• Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.
• Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
• GitHub Actions builds

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Discussion

• Wynton downtime results
  • Had to replace a ZFS failed RAID disk.
  • fsck did not complete and was killed on Friday.
  • Set group id by default on beegfs now so new files in a directory get the same group id. Helps with disk quota.
  • Forgot to notify all CGL email users in advance.

• Plato local NAS disk
  • Could only connect to a 1 Gbit interface. Have 10 Gbit hardware ordered.
  • Will be able NFS mount NAS onto Wynton so data is available on Wynton. Other labs use this capability.

• Trac sqlite to mysql
  • Greg worked on it last Monday.
  • Conversion failing possibly because an attachment is too large.
  • Emoji in a summary line broke conversion.
  • Eric gets database locked Trac errors, especially bad when email2trac fails.

• email2trac fails to recognize subject line
  • Eric has seen a case where subject line containing Chinese characters encoded as utf-8 that does not match original Trac ticket.
  • Greg says to send any example and maybe email2trac can be fixed.

• ChimeraX 1.9 release candidates
  • Everyone ready to start release candidates and branch code.
  • Zach will try making the branch tomorrow.
  • Zach says 1.8 branch was never merged to master. He will merge it.

• Tristan build problem #15897
  • Tristan asked today why dependency conflicts do not appear until end of build.
  • Zach says hard to reproduce because Tristan's git repository has different 2 month old code.

• Piet asks about license at top of code
  • Yes add standard ChimeraX license code to scenes code.
  • ScholAR code is on Toolshed so may not need license. It is in separate RBVI repository.

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Action Items