ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Selina, Zach, Greg, Tom, Eric

May 6, 2024

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.8 release candidate schedule
• Work in progress reports
• Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes for 1.18 release in Spring 2024.
• Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
• ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.

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Discussion

• Selina metal ion ChimeraX tool
  • Eric is answering Selina's emailed questions about how to program GUI table for metal ion tool.
  • Selina joined this meeting but will wait for email response.

• ChimeraX 1.8 release candidates
  • Greg will make ChimeraX 1.8 release candidate today or tomorrow and branch source.
  • Eric will look at if render by attribute ticket is complete for 1.8.
  • Greg and Zach have several tickets milestoned for 1.8 they will look over, close or remilestone.

• Trac account for Utz Ermel
  • Web script to add Trac accounts for ChimeraX outside developers gives internal server error.
  • Script is using Python 2.
  • Scooter told Greg how to make an ldap entry and kerberos identity using command-line to add an account for Utz.
  • Eric wants to update ChimeraX Wiki page to document this process.

• Git flow for ChimeraX
  • Zach asks how master branch is updated during release.
  • Greg explained how we mostly follow "git flow" except for not merging into develop.
  • Greg suggests Zach and reset master to 1.7.1.

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Action Items