DevNotes_20Mar2026_Technical

Refactor Hackathon Summary

• Refactor Hackathon
  • Packages Worked On:
    • SasView:
      • Undo stack - Piotr - https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3902 (draft)
    • SasData:
      • Data loaders verification and testing - Paul B
      • Data Trends - Miguel - https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pull/198
      • Linear Algebra operations - Paul S. - https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pull/196
      • Slicing backend - Jeff - https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pull/197 (draft)

Contributor Camp

• Nov 3-9, 2026, in Prague - Confirmed
• https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/ContributorCampXV

Pull Requests

• SasView (21 open, 7 in draft, 3 approved)
  • Ready to merge?
    • Dependabot actions update: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3901
    • SAXS Fitting: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3786
    • Fit Report enhancements: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3870
    • Fit Optimizer Selection Fix: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3871
  • Discuss:
    • Duplicated CI: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3866
    • Use browser for help: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3847
    • Invariant UI Tests: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3888
    • Invariant calculation tests: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pull/3897
• SasModels (9 open, 4 in draft)
• SasData (9 open, 6 in draft)
  • Unrecognized units: https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pull/190
  • Linear Algebra Operations: https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pull/196
  • SasData API: https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pull/106

6.2.0

• Time to start planning and creating a timeline
• Currently June/July planned release date (following most recent cadence - feature release once per year, with 1-3 bug fix releases in between)
• Using 6.1.0 as an example - https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_25Feb2025
  • Schedule:
    • Feature freeze - End of April with alpha release immediately following
    • Bug Fixes on New Features - until End of May (a couple after) - RC1 immediately followed
    • Full Release planned for end of June, with an actual release date of July 3
  • What branch to originate from?
    • main until feature freeze
    • Create release branch for the alpha release
    • Pull requests for fixes based off the release branch
• What is already in main?
• What other features are desired?
• What features should be highlighted in the what's new panel?
• SasModels and SasData releases
  • Need Zenodo for each: What contributors list should be used for those? Main SasView one, or smaller lists for each, with the sasview list always including everyone?
• Need to ensure Sujaya and Paul S. have permissions for the appropriate repos and distributions (pypi, flatpak, documentation, sasview.org, zenodo)

Status updates of ongoing projects

• CodeScene and Ruff (Paul S./Jeff)
  • CodeScene integration - Wiki In Progress
    • Jeff to finish off write up for Minimal Safety Net
    • What thresholds should we use for different things?: https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/blob/master/.codescene/code-health-rules.json
    • Once write up is finished and thresholds are decided, enable on sasdata
• SasPubs
  • Pub list available on Zenodo: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2309096/sasview
  • Need people to find publications. Someone had found some - please remind me!

ADRs

• To finalize:
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3171#discussioncomment-15497631: Linter
• Ongoing discussion:
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3511: Use web browser instead of built-in window - Who can write the final suggestion?
• New to discuss
  • No link: Defining the release process and release manager - Jeff to create discussion
  • No Link: Contributing to SasView: Define the process, i.e. what the requestor needs to provide, level of support from the existing community, and
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3475: Release automation (can we assign some tasks...?)
    • Create suggestion to discuss at Tuesday meeting?
    • Zenodo generation - build_tools/release_automation.py, but would need tweaks, the ability to commit changes, and the ability to change release tags
    • Pypi publishing - Work started in sasdata
    • Upload binaries to releases - Already working for nightly build

AOB?