DevNotes_02Jun2026

General updates (roundtable)

• Technical meeting updates - (Sharp/Krzywon)

  • Technical meetings occur fortnightly on Fridays in alternate weeks from this meeting

• Refactoring project updates

  • Refactoring Hackathon II will take place 3-5 June
  • Last Minute updates?

• SASBDB integration project (Wojciech)

  • on hold till July. has two separable pieces: graphical representation of models and the database deposition

• Generic Scattering Calculator redesign working group

  • Meeting held just prior to this one
  • the webpage has been updated
  • A 3rd meeting will be scheduled to try to finalize a concept.
  • Would be nice to be in a position to start working on implementation at contributor camp

• Sasmodels working group (refactoring project and marketplace vs core etc) (Paul and Wojciech)

  • Wiki pages generated https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_ModelsWG
  • Kickoff meeting delayed
  • Would be nice to be in a position to start working on implementation at contributor camp

• Contributor Camp XV - Prague -- NO UPDATES

• planning/info page

• First hotel option: Hermitage
  • nearby (10 min walk)
  • closer to restaurants
• considering another hotel option: Grand Hotel
  • cheaper
  • arguably better amenities
  • decent place
  • bit further away (20 min walk)
  • metro station nearby

6.2.0 Release

• Code freeze started on 15th May.

  • Release checklist
  • New versions for SasModels (1.0.13) and SasData (0.12.0)
  • The latest alphas available for testing:
    • SasView A3
    • SasModels A3
    • SasData A1.
  • Please download and test. The hope is to be able to release a beta 1 very soon!
    • Enter issues as sub-issues of #3955

• Timeline:

  • Mid June: end of alpha testing and full code freeze - a release candidate will follow this.
  • End of June: full release

• Rules:

  • only bug fixes relevant to new features added
  • no new models

PRs - This is a feature release, so the main focus is on new features and major changes:

sasview

• MultiSlicers by @jellybean2004 in
  #3970

• SideDistribution by @jellybean2004 in NOT FOR 6.2.0!!

  • #3962 — Size Distribution calculator clean up (cleanup/type hints for new SD perspective shipping in 6.2.0)
  • #3963 — Single kernel call for volume and intensity (fixes #3418, SD bug fix; depends on #3962)
  • #3965 — Adds PDF report for Size Distribution (new feature for SD perspective in 6.2.0)
  • #3967 — Fix report preview background (fixes #3964, dark mode regression — recent issue) APPROVED

• auto upload binaries during CI if a tagged branch (needed for releases?) by @krzywon in

  • #3932 — Upload Binaries On Tag (CI release workflow — could be needed for release process itself)

• Is this for 6.2? - COULD BE - see notes in pull request

  • Docs Cleanup by @llimeht in
    • #3954 — Fix sphinx docs private members (cleans up the unreadable docs the user sees)

sasdata

• #202
  • merge after hackathon

sasmodels

• Add support for latest BUMPS version - IS IT NEEDED for 6.2? by @pkienzle in

  • #704
    • Merged to master. no need to cherry pick this as sasmodels 1.0.13 uses earlier bumps version. But should work either way

• NOT READY BUT DISCUSSED:

  • #704 torus elliptical shell model. Needs some work but we should encourage the author. This is a nice model!
  • #694 another truncated octahedron model untouched since January
    • PK to move it to explore and then merge so it can be kept for comparison but does not end up in the releases.

Acknowledgements

Will turn these ideas into an ADR for further discussion and eventual adoption

• How should we acknowledge contributing institutions? Do we continue to use logos? If so how do we decide?
• The suggestion we currently have is:
  • We will remove the logos from the SasView application and rephrase the wording to avoid listing institutions.
  • We will add lists of affiliations to the people page on sasview.org, alongside a separate list of contributor camp hosts.
  • We will also update the grants section of the people page, and the contributors.tsv file in the SasView repo.
• We currently have around 30 contributing institutions, over 20 of which are universities.
• General consensus is that having full lists of institutions and/or logos on sasview.org is easier than in the application itself.
• Please let us know of any grants that we may be missing.

ADRs

• New code should be formatted using a linter

• Automating Release Processes

• The Defining the Release Process and the Release Manager Role ADR is an "overarching" ADR, that contains several points within it that are ADRs themselves.

Help desk staffing

https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_HelpDesk

• Covered through June (need summer coverage)
  • Now we are covered through September (thanks Jeff, Dirk and Marianne)

AOB