= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Piet, Greg, Tom, Eric, Zach

December 2, 2024

= Agenda =

* ChimeraX 1.9 release candidates, branch and tickets
* 1.9 release planned for December 9, 2024
* What to do about Mac external display crashes
* 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 =

* UCSF VPN
  - Elaine still getting kicked off UCSF VPN periodically with network access control message.
  - Eric not using UCSF VPN but sometimes needs it for timesheet or Windows ChimeraX gui bugs.
  - Tom not using UCSF VPN much, not kicked off yet.

* Plato OS updates
  - Wynton Rocky updates done by Josh via a Wynton-Rocky repo.
  - Updates from official rocky repo copied to a wynton-test repo and tested on test cluster, then moved to wynton-rocky repo.
  - Greg looking at how plato updates would be done independent of Wynton.

* SPOKE
  - Greg and Eric discussed steps taken to fix broken SPOKE devel site, required pcs restart.
  - Person on spoke project who had sudo access to pcs restart is no longer part of spoke.
  - Updates to Neo4j available but Greg was told there is a problem to address if updates are made, but does not have details of the problem.

* Qt 6.8.1
  - New Qt released, but PyQt 6.8 not yet available.
  - Will switch ChimeraX daily to pyqt 6.8 when available.

* ChimeraX 1.9
  - Eric working on two bugs.  Missing segment labels broken in morph.  French language KVFinder entry field will not accept "." or ",".
  - Tom wants to add bug reporter check for specific crashes that will then show explanation of crash but still allow users to report.
  - Zach has a few obscure segmentation bugs to fix for 1.9 release.
  - Greg and Zach will remilestone or close 1.9 tickets by Friday for planned release on Monday.

* Linux daily builds failing
  - Github daily builds failed for Linux, not able to reach plato.
  - Greg thinks that is probably the UCSF or plato DNS server not responding.
  - Greg suggests trying tracepath -n after failure to see if plato is reachable.
  - Zach says he could revert daily builds from github to RBVI machines if plato can't be reached reliably.

* Email on NAS
  - Greg created /nas/home/ferrin/{gregc,pett,meng,goddard,zjp...} shadow directories for handling email and tried moving his ~/mail to NAS with a symbolic link from beegfs ~/mail to NAS.
  - If /wynton/home unmounted then mail would continue to work using symbolic link on NAS from /wynton/home to /nas/home.

* Scenes
  - Piet made atomic model scene code use take_snapshot()

* ScholAR
  - Piet says Lars at USC said he may simplify API token system for uploading figures.

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= Action Items =