= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Piet, Tom, Eric

March 10, 2025

= Agenda =

* Toolshed cache never initialized #16830
* ViewDockX port to Qt
* 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.
* Linux ARM64 release and download page

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= Discussion =

* Toolshed cache not updating
 - Greg says he believes this is fixed.
 - Time out had been changed to a short 3 seconds to avoid the cache update thread blocking ChimeraX exit.
 - Greg has lengthened timeout to 12 seconds.
 - Discussed whether a daemon thread could be used so that ChimeraX exit is not blocked by the cache update thread.  Greg will look.

* ViewDock
 - Discussed how to start ViewDock from the Tools menu which requires an Open dialog appear, versus starting it from other bundles that have already opened the docking data.
 - Piet made routine to show ViewDock gui.
 - ViewDock gui does not yet do anything.

* KVFinder crashes
 - Crashes on Windows have been fixed.
 - Eric found KVFinder crashing on Windows only due to exceeding C stack size limit.
 - ChimeraX executable was using stack limit that was half the limit set by Python.
 - Greg made ChimeraX executable use larger stack limit.

* BlueSky
 - Tom posted 5 images on BlueSky, followers increased 400 to 470.
 - ChimeraX has 7000 followers on X.  X has 10-20x more total users than BlueSky, so not clear how many of our X followers will be reachable on BlueSky.
 - Tried to change BlueSky account email to chimerax-bluesky.  Could not get confirmation email from BlueSky with that email.  Zach has reverted BlueSky email to his CGL email.
 - Greg got domain name chimerax.ucsf.edu to use as BlueSky handle @chimerax.ucsf.edu.  Currently using @www.cgl.ucsf.edu.  Need new url certificate update that Greg will do today.

* ChimeraX Roadmap
 - Added several items to ChimeraX roadmap.  New command parser, MD plotting, Scenes, ViewDock, Boltz structure prediction, Sony and Acer 3d display, Linux ARM builds, Toolshed using new PyPi protocol.

* Linux build distribution
 - Discussed ways to improve Linux distribution if ChimeraX show license at first startup.
 - Could host repositories (PPA) so Linux users could install in the customary way.
 - Zach says ChimeraX download page will have 12 instead of 6 linux builds if he adds ARM versions.

* ChimeraX on plato
 - Zach asks if Greg can make ChimeraX daily build install on plato every day.
 - Greg says he will add that.

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