ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Piet, Greg, Tom, Eric, Zach

October 28, 2024

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.9 release candidates, branch and tickets
• 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

• Minsky
  • Greg working on getting minsky to boot.
  • Getting keyboard error.
  • Thinks it is a disk error on the boot partition.

• Candidate builds
  • They should be on the download page tomorrow.

• Daily builds
  • Zach switched the ChimeraX daily builds to Github Actions.
  • Does Mac and Windows notarizations.
  • Resolved plato access errors during builds by limiting autobuilds to develop branch.

• Animation tool
  • Piet will be working on file-history-like thumbnails to show scenes.

• Acer auto-stereo openxr display
  • Tom Ferrin not yet answered about whether we should get a display.
  • Since openxr takes over display probably need another display with the ChimeraX user interface to make this useful for viewing structures.

• Next week ChimeraX meeting cancelled
  • TomG out. Other developers can talk with each other at the office about any issues that arise.

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Action Items