DevNotes_19May2026

General updates (roundtable)

• Technical meeting updates

  • Technical meetings occur fortnightly on Fridays in alternate weeks from this meeting - next is on 29th May.

• Refactoring project updates

  • Refactoring Hackathon II will take place 2/3 days in June
  • Jeff sent out a doodle poll - please fill it in.

• SASBDB integration project (Wojciech)

• Generic Scattering Calculator redesign working group

  • the webpage has been updated
  • Next meeting scheduled on June 2nd - email Wojtek if you would like to attend

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

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 Alphas for SasView, SasModels and SasData are now available.

  • Please download and test
  • An issue was found in the SasModels alpha, which has been addressed in this PR.
  • A second alpha for SasView and SasModels will be released this week.

• Timeline:

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

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

  • MultiSlicers by @jellybean2004 in
    #3758, #3806, #3832

  • Invariant refactor and improvements by @jellybean2004 in
    #3789, #3835, #3861, #3888, #3897

  • NavigationTool (Send to Data Explorer button on plots) by @ChristianWoegerbauer in
    #3763

  • UI/UX improvements and Corfunc refactor by @jellybean2004 in
    #3587, #3833, #3850

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
  • good 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

• Concluded interviews for the Summer Student at MAXIV. The selected candidate accepted the offer. Start on July 6th, end August 28th.