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
  • What’s 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 β€œHelp” 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 None for logic.kernel_module
  • #3835 β€” Add uncertainties to Invariant inputs
  • #3832 β€” Angularly replicated β€œsymmetric” 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)

  • #156 β€” Work on the SasData object definition (Draft)
  • #106 β€” Sasview database (Draft)

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?

AOB