= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Piet, Tom, Eric

March 3, 2025

= Agenda =

* Chimera webpush fails, Directory not empty, "/usr/local/sbin/webpush", line 234, shutil.rmtree(dstOld)"
* Toolshed cache never initialized #16830
* Make Chimera release (fix broken PDB fetch)
* Should build test failures fail the build?
* 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.

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= Discussion =

* Should test suite failure block daily builds?
 - Zach will change build scripts so test failures allow daily build to be distributed and nightly email will note test suite failures for investigation.
 - Eric suggests no.  In the past test suite failures did not prevent daily build going to web site.
 - In almost all cases the a test suite failure has minimal to no impact on the daily build.
 - Rejecting daily builds prevents new features and fixes from being used.

* Chimera webpush failing
 - Fails in Python shutil.rmtree().
 - Looked at code, not clear how a directory being deleted ends up not empty.
 - Greg added code to just warn if the old directory delete fails since it is not necessary that the old directory is deleted.

* Chimera release
 - Greg will make release by this Thursday.

* Toolshed cache initialization hangs
 - Greg will look at this.
 - Eric says the cache initialization is seen in many bug reports apparently because it hangs or takes a long time and then times out.

* ViewDockX port HTML to Qt
 - Piet is working on Qt interface for viewdock.
 - Piet submitted an initial pull request for viewdockx.
 - Is a viewdockx command needed?  Eric says no.
 - To start viewdock have a show_tool() function in the bundle.
 - Copyright notices should go on code files.

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