DevNotes_07Oct2025

General Updates

• NIST is part of the US Dept of Commerce and thus shutdown due to a "lapse in appropriations"
  • release consequences
  • potential consequences on tutorial Oct 23-24
  • potential consequences on contributor camp
• UTK server issues and status - Re recent notices about lack of access to model marketplace
  • Old server slowly dying - serves the mailing lists!
  • Process of upgrading "new" server to Ubuntu 24.04LTS (currently on 20.04LTS which is reaching EOL support)
  • now upgraded to 22.04LTS and marketplace seems to be back in operation

6.1.1 Release Status

• Out with help from Steve King, but
  • Still an unresolved issue #3053 that would be really good to fix
  • Flatpack is still not working - Jame working on
  • Issue with inversion perspective scripting reported by Alan Hicks (developer emails)
  • Pending 6.1.1 merge into main without release managers PR - status/who/how?
• Question: Do we proceed with merging PRs as ready to main before or after merging 6.1.1 into main?

Upcoming events

• Next contributor camp planning - https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/ContributorCampXIV
  • Hotel booking status? Annika
  • BIOSAS meetings for contributor camp: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/BioSAS-meetings - First meeting held on Sept. 17 (Wojtek)
  • magSANS meetings for contributor camp: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/MagSAS-meetings - First meeting Oct 9(Paul/Annika)
  • Introduction for new devs (GitHub, CodeScene, etc). - In planning for just prior to the camp
• Hybrid SasView Tutorial with Munich (Oct 23/24) - https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/594/ - Larger announcement made yet?

Status updates of ongoing projects

• Shape2SAS (Kristian)
• CI automation (??)
• CodeScene and Ruff (Paul S.)
• Refactoring Project (Lucas/Paul S.)

ADRs

• Sent to the mailing list - any new discussion? - To be finalized on Oct 7. if no objections:
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3245: Dependency Freezing
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3170: Type hints
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3583: Revised ADR Process
• Ongoing discussion:
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3171: Linter
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3511: Use web browser instead of built-in window
  • https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3503: Citing SasView and Parallel Projects

Pull Requests

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

AOB?