= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Piet, Greg, Tom, Eric, Zach

November 25, 2024

= Agenda =

* What to do about Mac external display crashes
* ChimeraX 1.9 release candidates, branch and tickets
* Should developer tutorial section on commands talk more about keywords
* !GitHub Actions builds
* 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.

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= Discussion =

* Plato file migration to NAS
  - Greg says Wynton files for Plato (services, web, ...) have mostly been moved to the Network Attached Storage on plato and plato is using the NAS versions.
  - Home directories have not been moved.
  - Mail spool directories have not been moved.
  - If home directories are moved then logging in to Wynton won't find home directory, because they currently use the same account through the same LDAP server.
  - If plato nodes removed from Wynton, may need separate accounts and separate LDAP to manage plato account separately from Wynton.

* ChimeraX 1.9 release
  - Greg will remilestone or close some tickets.
  - Tom says mac display configuration crashes probably need some user notification to avoid tons of bug reports.
  - Tom wants to fix AlphaFold 3 PAE handling so it recognizes file name and handle .npy Chai-1 format.

* Scenes
  - Piet demonstrated scenes involving atomic structures and volumes.
  - No interpolation currently.
  - Discussion of whether take_scene() method should be eliminated in favor of take_snapshot(..., flags = SCENE).

* Github Actions ChimeraX builds
  - Github actions changed name of Python package config module or eliminated old name breaking our build scripts.  Zach is fixing it.

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= Action Items =