= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Eric

June 2, 2025

= Agenda =

* ChimeraX 1.10 release in June 2025
* Should we disable Windows crash reports since they are almost always useless?
* ChimeraX asking for registration more than once #17080
* 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 release
  - Tom suggests release early next week.  Tom posted Boltz tool to X/Twitter last week to get more testing and want to wait a week to see if bugs come in.
  - Still have 18 active tickets for 1.10.  About 15 assigned to Greg.  Greg is on vacation.
  - Need to fix bug where request to register is happening every year.
  - Will discuss release schedule on Thursday with Greg and need to remilestone, fix or close 1.10 tickets.

* Allow Windows and Linux crash reports?
  - We almost never get any useful info from Windows and Linux crash reports.
  - Windows crash reporting has been disabled in ChimeraX for several years.  But we reenabled it after 1.9 in the daily builds to see if the faulthandler traceback info has improved.
  - Eric and Tom agree we should disable crash reports on Windows and Linux in 1.10.
  - In daily build we will keep Windows crash reports enabled so Eric can test a possible fix to a common Windows open dialog crash of turning of garbage collection while open dialog shown.
  - In daily build we will allow Linux crash reporting but only if user provides email address.

* New ViewDock test and release plan
  - Piet is finishing his ViewDock work but it still needs testing and release.
  - Eric says it is tricky to test because old ViewDockX needs to be removed to properly test the new ViewDock since it registers for the same file types.
  - Elaine and John Irwin should do initial testing using daily build, and Eric will make needed fixes.

* ChimeraX build system problems
  - Error in tests because it can't find Python.h.  Zach says he is aware of it and will fix it.  Eric can ignore it for now.
  - Mac hdutil says it can't release image.  Zach will look into it.  Seems like a parallel processing problem where one process is using the image when another tries to eject it.  Might put a sleep 5 in before eject, or might try to re-eject on failure.

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