= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Tom, Zach, Eric, Greg

June 29, 2026

= Agenda =


* Not compiling Python ourselves; use !GitHub
  - Try as a tech preview
  - Still do Linux ourselves because of ssh
* ChimeraX 1.13 updates?
  - Python 3.14 (blocked by #20335 and #16848)
  - !PySide 6.11.1
    - Try it again -- in a week (along with other package updates)
* Inside ribbon color?
* Toolshed reduce query result size.
* Chimera release?
* Work in progress reports
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.


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= Discussion =

* Ssh security warning on Mac
 - Greg says Tom's Mac still has an ssh security warning.
 - Needs ssh 10.3 but has 10.2p1.
 - Mac is at macOS 26.5.1.  Tom will update to 26.5.2.
 - Check other Macs to see if they have newer ssh.
 - Greg may file exemption if macOS does not offer a fix.

* Package updates
 - Eric update PyPi packages used by ChimeraX Python shell.
 - New window resize bug reported by Tristan in Qt 6.11.

* AI visualization
 - Tom Ferrin asked about AI visualization example from OMSF workshop.
 - TomG got slides for Open Molecular Software Foundation talk on AI visualization by Dion Whitehead.
 - Might be interesting to try to make a coupled sequence alignment and structure web view using these tools.

* Chimera 1.20 release
 - Greg made Mac and Windows Chimera 1.20 release with newer Tcl/Tk that fixes Mac graphics not being positioned correctly in window.
 - Linux Chimera 1.20 build failed not finding freetype2 headers.  Greg is looking at it.

* Doing Elaine's tasks
 - Discussed how to write documentation, answer user email, quality control on new features, make feature highlights, document new citations, without Elaine.
 - Aim is to keep up Elaine's high standards.

* Roadmap for ChimeraX 1.13 release in December
 - Eric working on writing DMS surface files and making metal geometry tool.
 - Tom working on handling deletions and insertions in mutation data, and fetching mutation data from MaveDB.

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= Action Items =