DevNotes_4Nov2025 - SasView/sasview GitHub Wiki

General Updates

  • The contributor camp begins in seven days - Nov 11th.
  • The US gov remains in a shutdown status
    • This has impacted the 6.1.1 cleanup (see below)
    • This will now likely impact the contributor camp - 4 US participants.

6.1.1 Release Cleanup Status

  • As agreed last meeting, the 6.1.1 release branch has been merged into main.

6.1.2 Release

  • Last meeting we agreed that Paul Sharp will create a 6.1.2 branch off of main Friday Nov 7 (just before the contributor camp)
  • However, we have since found issues with the 6.1.1 bug fix release - see #3648, #3658, #3660, #3663.
  • Paul Butler has proposed we add these fixes to the documentation and plugins ONLY to a quick 6.1.2 release (potentially to go out this week), and then create a 6.1.3 release branch for other bug fixes on Friday Nov 7.
  • Thoughts on this? - Agreement that a small 6.1.2 release is a good idea, thoughts that we should consider after the contributor camp whether a 6.1.3 release is necessary or whether we should go to a later 6.2 release.

Pull Requests

  • Reminder: following the changes in sasview #3596, including the removal of run.py, SasView is launched by either running python -m sas or sasview in a terminal. Following sasview #3656, you can also run the file __main__.py from a IDE.

  • Discussed at the last meeting

    • Merged since last meeting

    • Outstanding from the last meeting

      • sasview #3534 - Fetching of the license file from relative path - disagreement over what to do - leave for now
      • sasdata #47 - Finishing the manipulations.py Rewrite - rebased, codescene issues and tests fail - consider further at contributor camp
      • sasdata #62 - Interpolations for data operations - draft, still to be decided whether to merge or close - consider further at contributor camp
      • sasmodels #673 - Fix limits on angles and angular dispersity - @dehoni to review
      • sasview #3601 - Qwedge - @butlerpd to review
      • sasview #3544 - shape2sas plugin models - @butlerpd to review
      • sasview #3602 - Dependabot: Include all action updates in one PR - discussion required - leave for now
      • sasmodels #679 - Cache figures between CI builds to speed up runs - @rozyczko to review
      • sasmodels #677 - Fix RepeatedKernelRetrieval error in OpenCL - review required
      • sasmodels #658 - Simple adaptive integration - review required (large PR so unlikely to merge before contributor camp)

  • Created since last meeting

Refactoring Project

  • I have merged the Quantities work from the refactoring project into the main branch of sasdata sasdata #167
  • I will work on other branches this week, likely focussing on trends, operations on datasets, and loading and saving data.
  • The refactoring roadmap is available here
  • Plotting refactor branch has been rebased, are we able to review and merge?
    • We will consider this further at the contributor camp

CodeScene and Ruff

  • Ruff is setup on SasView, SasData and SasModels. Codescene is only enabled for SasData.
    • 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 was released.
  • I have found codescene quite inflexible when working on merging the refactoring project into main - we should review the requirements at a later date, and before applying codescene to the other repositories.
    • Unlike ruff which will automatically change things on the CI, codescene demands unspecific changes and fails the CI.
    • Agreement that codescene is a useful developer tool, but we do not want to present a barrier to an everyday developer
    • We may be able to resolve problems through adjusting settings.

Contributor Camp Planning

Help Desk Staffing needs

  • Dirk is primary and Steve is secondary for November.
  • We have holes in the schedule from December onwards. Anybody willing and able?

AOB?