DevNotes_26Sep2025

General Updates

• Technical group still meeting but every other week on alternate weeks to regular developer meeting - New contributor or project? Please attend!

6.1.1 Release Status

• Blocker issue
  • Magnetic Fitting: Issue #3557, PR #3581 - Ready to merge?
  • Flatpak support - help wanted
• Final release date: ASAP

Upcoming events

• Next contributor camp planning - https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/ContributorCampXIV
  • SCAM ALERT - Participants receiving emails from GT Events - Not a contracted company
  • Annika to send updated hotel bookings list out soon - Please check the dates!
  • BIOSAS meetings for contributor camp: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/BioSAS-meetings - First meeting held on Sept. 17 (Wojtek)
  • magSANS meetings for contributor camp: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/MagSAS-meetings - First meeting in planning - https://www.when2meet.com/?32456329-kK8Yf (Paul/Annika)
  • Introduction for new devs (GitHub, CodeScene, etc). - In planning for just prior to the camp
• Hybrid SasView Tutorial with Munich (Oct 23/24) - https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/594/ - Larger announcement made yet?

Status updates of ongoing projects

• Shape2SAS (Kristian)
• CI automation (Jeff)
• CodeScene and Ruff (Paul S./Jeff)
• Refactoring Project (Lucas/Paul S./Jeff)

Upcoming Technical Group - Release Support

• Meeting held on Weds. Sept. 24 regarding long-term conda support - NSLS-II and ORNL likely to maintain
• With the large number of packages supported, we need to strategize maintenance for them all - working group suggested
  • What packages to support? What is the process to add or remove support?
  • Short-term planning - What do we currently support, what is documented, what needs documenting
  • Long-term planning - Facility ownership, process for adding/removing support, CI integration, gaps in documentation
  • CI support and automation
  • OS-specific support
  • Python version support for each package
• Likely to kick-off December/January

ADRs

• Sent to the mailing list - any new discussion? - To be finalized on Oct 7. if no objections:
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3245: Dependency Freezing
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3170: Type hints
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3583: Revised ADR Process
• Ongoing discussion:
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3171: Linter
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3511: Use web browser instead of built-in window
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3503: Citing SasView and Parallel Projects

Pull Requests

• SasView: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls
• SasModels: https://github.com/SasView/sasmodels/pulls
• SasData: https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pulls

AOB?