Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Dev2025-4-21

Timestamp:

Apr 21, 2025, 4:24:02 PM (6 months ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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Dev2025-4-21

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 = Agenda =
 
-* ~~Brainstorming about #16523~~
+* UCSF email changes
+* R35 grant proposal
+* Dependabot notifications of !PyPi new package versions.
+* ChimeraX 1.10 release in June 2025
 * ChimeraX asking for registration more than once #17080
 * Chimera webpush often fails in shutil.rmtree() OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: 'cavities'
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 = Discussion =
 
+* UCSF email changes
+  - CGL email may need to transition to ucsf.edu email.
+  - This could impact our ChimeraX mailing list and Trac bug handling.
+  - UCSF email does not support IMAP or POP so web clients or Microsoft Outlook email clients that handle Outlook would be needed.
+  - UCSF email requires 2-factor authentication.
+
+* Qt version for ChimeraX release
+  - We will probably stick with Qt 6.8.2 from ChimeraX 1.10 release.
+  - Daily builds have been using Qt 6.8.2 for about 3 months and it seems to have fixed the Mac multi-display crashes.
+  - Greg says PyQt developer says he will not make Qt 6.8.3 release but has already jumped to Qt 6.9.0.
+  - Seems too late in ChimeraX release cycle to go to Qt 6.9.0.
+  - Qt 6.8.2 crashes on Mac when quitting from the Mac Dock ChimeraX menu entry.  Zach says this also happens in Qt 6.9.0 which he uses with PySide 6.  Tom will look at working around this crash.
+
+* New atom spec parser
+  - Not ready for next ChimeraX release.
+  - Eric is splitting it into a two stage process, make parse tree, then evaluate, like current parser.  This allows efficiently parsing multiple times to find the end of the atom spec in a command.
+
+* MD plotting
+  - Eric has trajectory plotting of 3 attributes that will be in 1.10 release.
+
+* Dependabot
+  - Getting fewer email message from github dependabot about new PyPi package releases because it already made pull-requests for most of our packages.
+  - Tom wants not to see the email spam and would like to avoid configuring email to divert it to a folder.
+  - Notifications could be turned off except at the beginning of ChimeraX release cycle.
+  - Eric has some trouble seeing Piet's pull requests among the 100 dependabot pull requests.  Requires a browser link to filter the pull requests that cannot be saved by github.
+  - Zach will look at ways to reduce the dependabot downsides.
+
+* R35 grant proposal
+  - Due May 16, and at UCSF contracts and grants May 12.
+  - 6 page research plan focuses on labs general goals without having to predict future projects.  We should think about what our lab's focus areas would be for the next 5 years.
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