Attendees

Zach, Eric, Greg, Elaine, Scooter, Tom Ferrin

January 22, 2026

Agenda

• Eric, work in progress
• Web site accessibility remediation
• Reducing ChimeraX Toolshed update server load
• Setup of server GPU nodes

Discussion Notes

• Toolshed database overloading web server
  • Frequent queries of Toolshed database bogged down the web server.
  • Return info about tool versions is over 1 Mbyte.
  • How can we optimize so web server is not impaired?
  • Can cache nightly the tool info to avoid costly database queries. Try this as next step.
  • Should look at database transaction logs to see what database queries are actually made.
  • Toolshed queries also return list of commands offered by the available bundles.

• Web site accessibility progress
  • Tom Ferrin got email from UCSF about too little progress on accessibility improvements.
  • Greg says changes he made before vacation were not checked in (chimera docs) so have not propagated to the siteimprove scores.
  • Chimera doc changes have been committed.
  • Next siteimprove scan is tomorrow (Jan 23).
  • Looked at many siteimprove issues during the meeting.
  • Greg can initiate a web site scan but it takes over a day to run.
  • Discussed how to report false positive accessibility issues.

• Github Pages for ChimeraX documentation.
  • Would moving ChimeraX docs to Github Pages reduce UCSF site accessibility requirements?
  • Would help reduce load on our server from web scrapers.
  • Zach says Github has size limits and we have lots of images.
  • Scooter notes Github pages takes time rebuild documentation while updating.

Action Items