= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Tom, Greg, Zach, Eric, Piet

September 30, 2024

= Agenda =

* Ideas about #15998 (file history update problem)
* Are Toolshed email addresses shielded from bots?
* Ideas about #16023 (download == internal server error).  VPN?  HTTP proxy?  Firewall?
* Work in progress reports
* Clean-up ChimeraX 1.9 roadmap wiki page
* ChimeraX 1.9 release candidate date, October 21
* 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 =

* File history save fails (#15998)
  - Saving session for one Windows users fails to write temp file when saving file history thumbnails.
  - Possible cause is security software locking the new temporary file.
  - Eric will inquire what security software user has.

* Roden Luo !DiffFit toolshed bundle email address
  - Roden apparently does not want his email address visible on Toolshed so entered invalid email (!AuthFirstName.!AuthLastName@...).
  - This causes ChimeraX developers to get regular email saying that email address has no Trac account.
  - Suggest Roden remove email address (other bundles like ScholAR have no email address).  Then add email info to description if he wishes.
  - Eric can make Trac account for Roden to receive bug reports.  Trac hides assignee email addresses unless you are logged into Trac.

* Download failing with Internal Server Error #16023
  - User gets an Internal Server Error whenever downloading ChimeraX.
  - Message says it is from localhost which is not the message plato would give.
  - Our logs show not connection made.
  - Appears security software (proxy, firewall, vpn) is blocking the connection, possibly because of the .py suffix on the CGI-bin script that serves the license.
  - Eric will advise users.

* Qt 6.7.3 released
  - Greg will update Qt 6.7.2 to 6.7.3 which has just come out.
  - Mac Qt 6.7.2 crashes when unplugging an external display (seen by TomG at end of group meeting) and we need some fix or work-around for the ChimeraX 1.9 release.

* Continuous integration with Github Actions
  - Mac notarization is working.
  - Zach wants help with Windows signing of distribution.
  - Greg says it is done with InnoSetup, needs a password that should not be exposed.
  - Zach wants to know if all distributions need all bundles based on Rocky 8.  Greg says yes so that third party bundles work if they are built for Rocky 8.

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= Action Items =