= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Greg

February 9, 2026

= Agenda =

* VPN software update
* Toolshed update caching to reduce database load.
* Web site accessibility progress.
* Decide on numpy, PySide, Python updates for 1.12 (3.13 or 3.14?)
* Chimera not working with macOS 26, graphics pane positioned over command-line.
* Work in progress reports
* Inside ribbon color?
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.

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= Discussion =

* VPN software update
 - Greg updated the VPN software that handles Duo authentication on plato and aristotle.
 - Duo server was warning that update was needed.
 - VPN log continues to show some probably unrelated errors that it was showing before update, but VPN is working.

* Web accessibility
 - Up to 90.8% score
 - Most points remaining are for 4 videos Scooter is working on captioning.
 - Also have contrast problems in developer docs made by Sphinx that Eric is in charge of.
 - Also have contrast problems on Tom Ferrin's personal page.
 - TomG will remove surfview.html javascript app for annotating 3D light microscopy surface blobs.

* Toolshed database caching
 - Greg looked at caching toolshed update database.
 - Proposes invalidating cache when a new bundle is approved, and also once per day to catch other changes like deleted bundles.

* !OpenFold
 - Tom working on ChimeraX OpenFold tool on Linux and Windows.  Currently works on Mac.

* Lighting GUI
 - Zach working on fixes to lighting GUI requested by Elaine.

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