Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Dev2026-08-10


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Aug 10, 2026, 4:16:38 PM (24 hours ago)
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Tom Goddard
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  • Dev2026-08-10

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    77= Agenda =
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     9* Next group meeting date and speaker
    910* Nightly builds macOS reproducible garbage collection crash in test suite.
     11* ChimeraX benchmark time series web page.
     12* Plato flatpak ChimeraX failing
    1013* Try !PyQt to !PySide for next release?
    1114* Inside ribbon color.
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    1720= Discussion =
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     22* Next group meeting date and speaker
     23 - Next group meeting will be August 20.
     24 - Decided to skip August 13 at our last meeting, Scooter away.
     25 - Scooter will speak at August 20 meeting.
     26 - Eric will announce restart of group meetings.
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     28* Nightly builds macOS reproducible garbage collection crash in test suite.
     29 - Eric tried to reproduce this garbage collection crash on his Mac Studio.  Did not crash.
     30 - Tom will comment out the specific command test "align #1 to #1" that failed today and see if it crashes in tonight's builds.
     31 - Seems the crash needs the Github continuous integration environment to happen.
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     34* ChimeraX benchmark time series web page.
     35 - Zach made a web page of timings of ChimeraX opening and closing structures, cartoon display, and ball style.
     36 - Used historical 2021-2024 benchmark data.
     37 - Shows an interesting speed up of 10-50% around the time of ChimeraX 1.7 in 2023.
     38 - Zach has the nightly builds collecting timings on Mac (chopin) and plato
     39
     40* Plato flatpak ChimeraX failing
     41 - Plato (Rocky 8) flatpak ChimeraX updated nightly  exits on startup.
     42 - Greg says flatpak support needs to be installed on all 4 plato nodes, currently only on one node.
     43 - Greg installed it on 4 nodes during meeting.
     44
     45* Try !PyQt to !PySide for next release?
     46 - Qt 6.11.2 expected out soon.
     47 - We will test on one of our lab machines to see if Mac main window resize still broken when a floating tool window shown.
     48
     49* Work in progress reports.
     50 - Tom working on mutation scores, GUI to associate homolog structures with non-identical sequences.
     51 - Updating Elaine's mutation documentation.
     52 - Will try updating ChimeraX OpenFold 3 soon when preview 3 release (currently in private consortium member only testing).
     53 - Eric working on metal geometry tools.
     54 - Eric has MD RMSD tool done but still working on user guide documentation.
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