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)

• Generic Scattering Calculator redesign working group

  • Meeting held just prior to this one
  • the webpage has been updated

• 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

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 A2
    • SasModels A3
    • SasData A1.
  • sasmodels just got bumped to alpha3. the bundle artifacts for SasView alpha 2 are using sasmodels alpha2. Do we need an alpha3 release of Sasview?
  • Please download and test. The hope is to be able to release a beta 1 very soon!

• 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

  • #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?

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

sasdata

• #202

sasmodels

• Add support for latest BUMPS version - IS IT NEEDED for 6.2? by @pkienzle in
  • #704

Acknowledgements

• 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.

Contributor Camp XV - Prague

• 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

ADRs

• Defining the Release Process and the Release Manager Role: needs discussion

• Automating Release Processes

• New code should be formatted using a linter

• 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)

AOB