ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Eric

May 12, 2025

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.10 release in June 2025
• Should we disable Windows crash reports since they are almost always useless?
• ChimeraX asking for registration more than once #17080
• 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

• 1.10 release candidates
  • Release candidates have been out for a week.

• Reducing useless bug reports
  • Will make a 1.10 bug report to consider ways to reduce number of bug reports that have no value.
  • Discussed whether to turn off Windows crash reports since they are almost never useful.
  • We could detect the open/save Windows crashes and only accept a report if they provide email. But since no one provides email for those maybe it is better to not even show the crash report panel.
  • Linux crash reports are also almost always not useful. Is there a way we could let possibly useful ones through while not even show the crash report dialog for the others?
  • Discussed not accepting bug reports from older ChimeraX versions than the current version. A problem is we don't know the current version without a web query. The check for new version tool does not appear to record in settings the version it found, only the date of the check.

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Action Items