DevNotes_27Jan2026 - SasView/sasview GitHub Wiki
General updates (roundtable)
- Paul Sharp has joined the SasView Leadership team
- Generic Scattering Calculator redesign working group: Jan 29 meeting moved to Feb 13th (Shapespyer meeting on Jan 29th)
- Refactoring project quarterly hackathons β update (Jeff)
- March 13 planning - March 16 and 17 for work
- Strategy for adding new models to core and marketplace (Wojtek)
- Paul B and Wojtek to discuss starting a working group and making a call
- Neutron GRC (Barcelona, April) β registration deadline Mar 29, update (Yun)
- March 29 deadline for application (= required for registration)
- Posters are limited to 74
- Brief technical meeting report (Jeff?)
- mac Intel support: still aiming to drop by end of year? Jeff + Ursula to check with Lionel
- Move to Python 3.14 soon for testing?
- 3.14 has threading support which could be useful, particularly for mac?
- release cycle of 4 per year maybe
- 6.2 for mid year
- early 2027 for alpha of refactoring
- Major project updates
- Refactoring Project: roadmap highlights / blockers since last call
Next contributor camp
- Venue scouting: Prague / Paris (SOLEIL or LPS Orsay) / ILL - Any updates?
- propose soleil with Orelien Turo -- waiting for local verification. Propose for down time during November.
- Dominika is very interested to host in Prague
- ILL = Paul G. working on it.
- Next step: once potential hosts identified, send a location poll
- Maybe take all for different years? How to chose which is which? does one offer prefer 2027 or 2026?
Releases
- 6.1.3 track: 6.1.3a1 pre-release exists (Dec 18, 2025); nightly builds ongoing
- Whatβs left for 6.1.3 final + target date?
- mostly ready... looking for mid FEB
Pull requests
SasView/sasview (21 open PRs)
Merge candidates (approved review: 4)
- #3844 β Better stability of save/load of OMF files
- #3843 β save download due to poor IO connection?
- #3833 β Generalize Corfunc Slider
Changes requested (3)
- #3842 β Add Pixi config file + setup automated versioning
- #2782 β Interpolation for operations (Draft; long-running)
- #2315 β Auto-plot data sent to fitting (Draft; long-running)
Needs review (14)
- #3849 β Add βHelpβ context menu item to open online docs
- #3848 β Implemented horizontal resize
- #3847 β Remove QtWebEngine; use system browser (Draft)
- #3846 β Modify truthiness check
- #3845 β #3839: fixed handling of
Noneforlogic.kernel_module - #3835 β Add uncertainties to Invariant inputs
- #3832 β Angularly replicated βsymmetricβ slicers
- #3790 β Slider option for parameters
- #3786 β Support for SAXS fitting (v2)
- #3777 β Implement event mediator (Draft)
- #3456 β Test PDF viewing (Draft)
- #3111 β Plotting refactor integration (Draft)
- #3006 β Refactoring Branch (Draft)
- #2940 β Plotting refactor (Draft)
SasView/sasmodels (14 open PRs)
Merge candidates (approved review: 1)
- #689 β Model for a mixture of two homopolymers (RPA case 0)
Needs review (13)
- #694 β Add wavemodel as build dependency
- #676 β Update examples and plotters for bumps webview
- #673 β Fix limits on angles and angular dispersity
- #671 β Update orientation viewer
- #665 β Send data mask from theory calculator into plotter
- #658 β Simple adaptive integration
- #651 β Allow sasmodels.compare to use bumps webview (no wx)
- #608 β Better integration
- #570 β Pure python Fq for beta approximation
- #533 β Fixed switched nomenclature for length and width
- #536 β Oriented SESANS transform (Draft; changes requested)
- #507 β Paracrystalline model simulation
- #449 β WIP: spelling fixes in two_power_law (Draft; changes requested)
SasView/sasdata (7 open PRs)
Merge candidates? (approved review: 1)
- #47 β Finishing the manipulations.py rewrite (opened Sep 17, 2023)
Needs review (4)
- #185 β Perf: optimize string concatenation using
.join()(opened Jan 24, 2026) - #101 β 48 fractional binning (Draft)
- #79 β Refactoring Branch (Draft)
- #62 β Interpolations for data operations (Draft)
No reviews / not yet in review-required bucket (2)
ADRs
- Finalized: Dependency Freezing (org discussion #3245)
- Sent to mailing list: Citing SasView and Parallel Projects (org discussion #3503) β updated proposal ready to send?
- Type hints (org discussion #3170) β revised proposal timeline?
Help desk staffing
- Volunteers needed β who can cover the next 2 weeks?