DevNotes_25Feb2025

General updates

• Next contributor camp - October-ish(?) - Germany(?), Czechia(?)
• SasView technical meeting - Every Friday 9am EST/2pm GMT/3pm CEST

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 - TODAY
• SasModels 1.0.9 release - FRIDAY
• 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

• Schedule:
  • 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 - Includes: webfit, Particle Editor, CI changes (all will be replaced by Wheels work), full numpy 2.0+ compatibility, partial bumps 1.0 compatibility
  • Create release branch after release_6.0.1 is merged into main
  • Any approved PRs against main can be merged
• 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?

Other business - As time permits

• Help Mailing List: We have volunteers into July (https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_HelpDesk)
• Post-6.0.1 release hackathon: Issue Clean-Up
• Contributor/Code Camp/Workshop/Hackathon Nomenclature

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?