DevNotes_20Oct2026

Last Fortnightly Meeting Before Contributor Camp

• No meeting on November 3rd

General updates (roundtable)

• Technical Meeting Updates (Paul S.)
• Refactoring Project Hackathon Doodle poll
• Any SASBDB integration project updates? (Wojciech)
  • Pr stack on main:
    • Waiting for review #4077
    • Drafts: export core, #4078 export dialog/Tools menu, #4079 fitting auto-fill + CorMap
• Generic Scattering Calculator redesign working group (Wojciech)
  • Temporarily on back burner. No longer aiming for contributor camp
  • Targeting a focused hackathon in 2027

Contributor Camp XV Prague, 3–9 Nov 2026 (Butler)

• Currently ~ 21 attendees
• Poster session — SasView usage in your research, including how AI is used or would help
  • https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/ContributorCampXV_Posters - enter directly
  • 4 so far expected.
  • Reminder + poster theme still to go to the developer list (Butler)
• Trainings and schedule - still need presenters
  • Start at 13:30 not 9AM (and 2 in the first afternoon) - see work organization below
  • Remove general git training
  • Refocus PR and PR review etc to "Introduction to community development: issues, Pull Requests, reviews, merging etc"
  • Refocus code structure to a higher level given the use of AI
• Work Organization: Two major working groups plus other ad hoc items (individual projects, release automation,bug/maintenance fixes, etc.)
  • Need Kanban boards for each sub project
  • Working groups envisaged:
    • infrastructure refactor and Diffraction perspective - Three subgroups + integration
      • Data refactor
      • Plotting refactor
      • Diffraction perspective
    • sasmodels rework (refactoring / marketplace vs core) Wiki page
• Current Plenary discussions
  • Topics
    • How to enable AI development while mitigating risks: tools and guardrails
    • How should SasView respond to the evolving use of AI in data analysis
    • Roadmap Strategy (replacing 5 year update discussion)
    • Perspectives and Tools and how to support new contributions
  • What time slots? How to distribute?
• Logistical issues
  • Saturday afternoon excursion options- NEED FEEDBACK
    • Pilsner Urquell brewery - in different city but very popular and books up quickly.
    • Staroprame brewry - is local tour price from $15 to $25 with beer tasting
    • Walking tour of Prague Castle and or old town
  • Thursday evening (EX "steak night") --> Klášterní šenk
  • listing of local restaurants for lunch and dinner being posted soon

Discussions

• 6.2.1 Release - Paul Sharp

  • Timeline:
    • Code freeze: Friday 9th October
    • RC2 released Oct. 19: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/tag/v6.2.1rc2 (installers available at https://github.com/SasView/sasview/actions/runs/39248981102 for now)
    • Final release: TBD (Windows signing issue hopefully resolved next week)
  • Master issue — 7 of 12 tracker items closed
  • Packaging leftovers from technical meeting:
    • conda-forge 6.2.0: sasview-feedstock #56 still open (Azure/GHA failed; automerge blocked)
    • pyausaxs: no conda build; pip wheel issues on Intel Macs — James/Marie + Kristian — still waiting for release tag?
  • 6.2.0 documentation issue for installing on ubuntu. Installed from github with pyinstaller.
    • Possibly just need to be clearer with recommended installation methods.

• SAS2027

  • September 2027
  • Should be possible to have a talk/presentation and user meeting area (instead of booth)
  • Possible co-share space or collaborate with CCP-SAS/SHAPESPYRE - Room confirmed!

• Improving/adding to Developer documentation beyond docs strings (James)

  • James adding rst files for top lever overviews

PRs

sasview: 23 open, 15 in draft

• Bug fixes and feature upgrades
  • #4077 SASBDB export — New; needs review
  • #4097 UTF-8 encoding — New; needs review
  • #4124 Allow MDI area windows to be detached/reattached on demand -> refactor24
  • #4133 Mumag refactor to refactoring branch -> refactor24
  • #4144 Detachable Windows - how does this relate to 4151? NEEDS FINAL REVIEW (seg faults fixed?)
  • #4151 Begin plotting refactor integration -> refactor24
• CI / developer tooling
  • #3842 Add pixi configuration — Technical group to review (camp project)
  • #3932 Attach binaries to release page on tag — Still needs review (quiet since May)
  • #4087 Flatpak automated update script — — CODE APPROVED - NEEDS functionality test? Who can do?
  • #4099 Allow pytest on an editable install — New follow-up after #3974 merge - STATUS OF ERRORS?

sasmodels: 9 open, 4 in draft

• #743 Adding peak_pseudo_Voigt model — Author addressed review (30 Sep); needs final approval
• #752 TCCBox as an optional dependency — Reviewed by @pkienzle
• #754 UTF-8 encoding — NEEDS DISCUSSION
• #764 Adds gaussian quadrature points for adaptive integration for python - New - needs review
• #765 View plugin docs with sasmodels.compare - Needs functionality review

sasdata: 3 open, 2 in draft

• #228 Fix endianness assumption in data handling - NEEDS REVIEW

Help desk staffing

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

• Roster now runs through Dec 2026 - need secondary for January plus....

AOB