= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Greg, Zach, Tom, Eric

August 18, 2025

= Agenda =

* Main ChimeraX Trac page is password protected, ticket attachments are password protected.  Can we unprotect those?
* Where are our 8 A40 GPUs?
* [wiki:C++Features Spiffy C++ features]
* Updating prereqs.
* Switch from !PyQt to !PySide?
* 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 =

* Trac password protection
 - Tony Shaefer could not download ticket attachment because required password.
 - Also ChimeraX documentation "developer site" link also required password.
 - Greg changed Apache access control so only trac/ChimeraX/query,search,report are password protected.

* GPU server nodes
 - Greg says two GPU server nodes are rack mounted in BH101 according to Wynton staff but not plugged in due to lack of power or cooling capacity.
 - These two nodes were purchased by Cytoscape project at UCSD.
 - Need to ask Scooter and Tom Ferrin if these two nodes should be moved to N453 machine room and turned on.
 - Also need to ask if they can be used for ChimeraX structure prediction testing and MSA server testing.

* New C++ features
 - Eric presented new C++ features he learned implementing new atomspec parser.
 - auto, decltype, any type, initializers, raw strings, large lambdas.

* ChimeraX PySide
 - Zach put tech preview with PySide on download page a few days ago.
 - Zach will tell Elaine about it to get some testing.
 - Developers can also use it to help uncover PySide / PyQt differences.

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