= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Tom, Eric, Piet

May 5, 2025

= Agenda =

* ChimeraX 1.10 release in June 2025
* Dependabot notifications of !PyPi new package versions.
* Should we disable Windows crash reports since they are almost always useless?
* Prevent submitting crash reports if a "This is a known crash..." is given and they provide no email.
* ChimeraX asking for registration more than once #17080
* Chimera webpush often fails in shutil.rmtree() OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: 'cavities'
* ViewDockX port to Qt
* Inside ribbon color?
* 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 =

* ChimeraX 1.10 release candidate
  - Decided to make branch and release candidate this week.  Zach will do it.  He just made the branch.
  - Aim is to make 1.10 release first week in January.
  - Have 29 ticket milestoned for 1.10.  Greg and Zach will work on fixing or remilestoning those.
  - Reviewed roadmap.  Several items not yet complete will be pushed to 1.11.
  - Definitely want bug where users asked to register more than once fixed in the 1.10 release.

* ViewDock
  - Piet has new ViewDock mostly implemented.
  - Will put in daily builds and get John Irwin to try it.
  - Discussed if old session with ViewDockX data should open using a hidden copy of old ViewDockX or should new ViewDock attempt to handle old ViewDockX sessions.  Piet will investigate how hard latter approach is.

* Dependabot
  - Zach will turn off dependabot for pypi so we don't get further pull request notifications.
  - After release we will run dependabot to get latest PyPi versions when we do once per release updates, then close all dependabot pull requests.
  - ChimeraX developer Mitch Murphy had choice works for the 50 dependabot pull requests obscuring his real pull request.

* Crash reporting improvements
  - Eric will test Windows crash reporting after using open/save dialog to try to understand why faulthandler spews so many confusing Python tracebacks.
  - We enabled Windows crash reports just for 1.10 daily builds and may disable them if they still seem of no value.
  - Tom will make reporting known crashes without specifying an email address not actually report the crash to save us time triaging bug reports.

* Web update error deleting directories
  - We still get error deleting old web directories from nightly ChimeraX documentation update script.
  - Greg made this give a warning instead of fail with an error.
  - Greg believes some other process is holding onto some files that cause this problem.
  - Directories are removed the next day and that seems to never fail.
  - Decided to remove warning so we don't get email about this non-problem.

* Inside ribbon color
  - Eric wants to prioritize adding inside ribbon color support.  Only applies to helices.  (What about nucleotides?)
  - Need to make ticket.
  - Tom will need to enhance ribbon graphics to handle the coloring and make sharp color boundary for helices.
  - Eric would add per-residue inside ribbon color and session saving support.

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