ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Piet, Greg, Tom, Eric, Zach

December 9, 2024

Agenda

• 1.9 release planned for December 9, 2024
• 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

• N453 keypad door lock
  • The code to leave the N453 door unlocked during the day does not work since maintenance replaced the battery.
  • Greg will submit a request to fix it.

• Scooter leave
  • Maybe we can talk to some of the Wynton advisory board to bring more transparency to Scooter's case so the lab has a better idea of how long he will be out.

• Qt 6.8.1 wheels on PyPi
  • Greg says Qt 6.8.1 wheels are on PyPi.
  • But PyQt is still only out for Qt 6.7.x on PyPi.
  • We can wait until PyQt 6.8 comes out.

• PySide6
  • Should we try switching from PyQt to PySide6 which is LGPL licensed and official supported by the Qt project for a few years now?
  • If we want to try for ChimeraX 1.10 we should do so early in the release cycle, e.g. January.

• BlueSky
  • Zach is getting our UCSFChimeraX BlueSky account verified using a file placed on our web site to show we control it.

• RAM disk for AlphaFold
  • Greg has setup /tmp/goddard as a RAM disk on wilkins with 500 GB for Tom to test AlphaFold 3 sequence search speed.

• ChimeraX 1.9 release
  • We will release Thursday Dec 12 if nothing new stops us.
  • Zach just added a DICOM TCIA downloader fix.
  • Tom recently (1 week ago) added a crash reporter fix to give users info about specific often encountered crashes that we cannot fix (graphics driver, Mac display config, ...).

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Action Items