DevNotes_21Oct2025 - SasView/sasview GitHub Wiki

General Updates

  • The US gov remains in a shutdown status
    • This has impacted the 6.1.1 cleanup and tutorial(see below)
    • This now risks impacting the contributor camp - 4 US participants.

Upcoming events

  • Hybrid SasView Tutorial with Munich (Oct 23/24) - https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/594/
    • announcement sent to user list - good response apparently -- also cleaned up several names from bounces.
    • Participation was capped at 40 which has been reached
    • Paul B. is planning to cover Jeff's session on "review of lesser known features"

6.1.1 Release cleanup Status

  • As suggested last meeting, we need to merge 6.1.1 release back into main ASAP, particularly with the upcoming camp.
    • How do we proceed? AGREED: Paul Sharp and Stuart Prescott have a plan that works and will proceed to finish merging 6.1.1 back into main ASAP
  • a couple of things were identified which we really wanted addressed for the camp in a 6.1.2
    • ISSUES:
      • #3053 2D fitting does not really work-as soon as an angle is set to zero it gets stuck there
      • INTRODUCED in 6.1.1.#3636 on second open of documentation a load of Warning errors get thrown.
        • Stuart says pull request #3596fixes and is ready to merge
        • Should we merge?
      • What about the inversion perspective scripting question Alan Hicks brought up? was that introduced in 6.1.1? should it be in a 6.1.2?
    • this seems out of reach at this point (even for a wildly aspirational project)?
    • How to proceed? We probably need to get 6.1.2 out well before all the contributor camp changes to main are ready for another release?
      • Agreed: Paul Sharp will create a 6.1.2 branch off of main Friday Nov 7 (just before the contributor camp)

Help Desk Staffing needs

  • currently Jeff is primary and Paul and Steve watching and jumping it to support Dirk as secondary
  • Starting in a few weeks we have holes. Anybody willing and able?

Contributor Camp Planning

  • BIOSAS meetings for contributor camp: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/BioSAS-meetings - Second meeting Nov. 3 (Wojtek)
  • magSANS meetings for contributor camp: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/MagSAS-meetings - First meeting Oct 9(Paul/Annika)
  • Status and plans for refactoring projects
    • sasdata
    • plotting
  • Will need support for new folks. Also, for those without a strong urge on a particular project, we could use support with the refactoring (and new user projects)?
  • Introduction for new devs (GitHub, CodeScene, etc).
    • 4 sessions planned at camp
    • Original plan was for zoom based training, particularly on all the changes, just prior to the camp
      • Probably not possible at this point?
      • Or is someone willing to volunteer?
      • AGREED: Punt on this effort. Not possible given time and resources.
  • CodeScene and Ruff (Paul S.)
    • Decision: Punt on hooking up codescence to sasmodels and sasview till after the camp.YES.
      • The original agreement was to activate CodeScene at the lowest level for sasmodels and sasview, as it has been for sasdata, once 6.1.1

Pull Requests

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Status updates of ongoing projects

  • Shape2SAS (Kristian)?
  • Others?

ADRs

AOB?