DevNotes_11Feb2025

General updates

• Next contributor camp - Meeting to discuss what is required of the host in planning
• SasView technical meeting - Every Friday 9am EST/2pm GMT/3pm CEST
• Reminder: SAXFELS meeting tomorrow at the same time. The agenda will be sent out after this meeting.

Status updates of ongoing projects

• Database - Summer/Marie/Jeff
• Flatpack (James)
• Refactoring Project (James/Lucas/Jeff)
• Including the full ausaxs including hydration layer, excluded volume, etc ...? (Kristian)
• Shape2SAS Integration (Thomas)
• Pore size distribution and 3 phase invariant (Paul)

6.0.1 release

• Code freeze - February 25
• SasModels 1.0.9 release - February 28
• SasView 6.0.1 Release - No later than March 14 but likely before then
• https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/v6.0.1
  • SasView: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22SasView+6.0.1%22
  • SasModels: https://github.com/SasView/sasmodels/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3A%22SasModels+1.0.9%22

6.1 release

• Release manager - James
• Schedule (Proposal):
  • Feature freeze - End of April
  • Bug Fixes on New Features until End of May
  • Full Release - End of June
• What branch to originate from?
  • main (suggested) - Includes: webfit, Particle Editor, CI changes (all will be replaced by Wheels work), full numpy 2.0+ compatibility, partial bumps 1.0 compatibility
• Features desired
  • PRs - https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3A%22SasView+6.1.0%22
  • Wheels - https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3161
  • What is going to be featured in What's New?

PRs

• sasmodels https://github.com/SasView/sasmodels/pulls
• sasdata https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pulls
• sasview https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls

Help Mailing list needs help

• Need more volunteers for April and beyond! (https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_HelpDesk)

AS TIME PERMITS - General Discussion as time permits

• What is a reasonable release pace
• Why do we seem to always have issues (and the more changes the more serious and lengthy the process)
• How can we achieve the pace without causing problems given our resources. - can we use copilot? Other test infrastructure.

AOB?