DevNotes_24Feb2026

General updates (roundtable)

• Generic Scattering Calculator redesign working group: Any updates? (Wojtek)
• Refactoring project quarterly hackathons (Jeff)
  • RefactorHackathon‐2026‐1
  • March 13 final planning - March 16 and 17 for work
• Strategy for adding new models to core and marketplace (Wojtek)
  • Paul B and Wojtek to discuss starting a working group and making a call
    • nothing new - focusing on GSC work first
• Neutron GRC (Barcelona, April) — registration deadline Mar 29, update (Yun)
  • March 29 deadline for application (= required for registration)
  • Posters are limited to 74
    • actually the limit it turns out to be much larger
    • Over 145 applications so far and is looking to be an exciting conference
    • Still would like to sort out a person to present a SasView poster
• Tracking the impact of SasView - Best methods?
  • Metrics: Users, downloads, publications, citations
  • Download statistics: https://tooomm.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=sasview&repository=sasview
  • Publications: https://www.sasview.org/publications/
    • Need to update list on Zenodo. Braydon started a publication review utility at https://github.com/tsole0/saspub-reviewer
    • Auto-updater (mostly) working in https://github.com/SasView/sasview.github.io/tree/master/.github/workflows
  • Usage analytics
• Brian Pauw fitting discussion

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Next contributor camp

• Venue scouting: Prague / Paris (SOLEIL or LPS Orsay) / ILL - Paul to give update
  • https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/CodeCampPlanning
  • Soleil - 2027 or 2028? Any updates?
  • Dominika is very interested to host in Prague - Paul B. in contact.
  • ILL - Paul G. working on it.
• Next step: once potential hosts identified, send a location poll
  • Maybe take all for different years? How to chose which is which? does one offer prefer 2027 or 2026?

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Releases

• 6.1.3:

  • 6.1.3rc1 is out (Feb 18, 2026); PLEASE TEST; nightly builds ongoing
  • What’s left for 6.1.3 final:
    • Pull requests: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22SasView+6.1.3%22
    • Issues: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22SasView%206.1.3%22
    • Master issue tracker: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/issues/3882
  • Target release date:
    • Final release: No later than Mar 6 (ideally Feb 25)

• 6.2.0:

  • Proposed release date: ~June 2026
  • Release manager - Sujaya

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ADRs

• Finalized:
  • Revision: Creating ADRs - https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3875
  • Citing SasView and Parallel Projects - https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3876
  • Type hints - https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3877
• Sent for review (more work desired):
  • Ruff and Linting - https://github.com/orgs/SasView/discussions/3171#discussioncomment-15497631
• Discuss:
  • Define release process and release manager role

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Pull requests

SasView/sasview (23 open PRs)

https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls

Merge candidates (approved review: 1)

• #3872 — Remove authors from release_automation.py

Changes requested (4)

• #3790 — Slider option for parameters
• #3842 — Add Pixi config file + setup automated versioning
• #2782 — Interpolation for operations (Draft; long-running)
• #2315 — Auto-plot data sent to fitting (Draft; long-running)

Needs review (11)

• #3880 — Dependabot: download-artifact version bump
• #3879 — Fixes unique ID generation
• #3874 — Comment on filtering job
• #3863 — Use GuiUtils.communicate wherever possible
• #3862 — Standardize colors
• #3861 — Invariant Perspective Code Cleanup
• #3847 — Remove QtWebEngine; use system browser
• #3832 — Angularly replicated “symmetric” slicers
• #3786 — Support for SAXS fitting (v2)
• #3761 — Keep tabbed plotter inside main window (Draft)
• #3456 — Test PDF viewing (Draft)
• #3111 — Plotting refactor integration (Draft)
• #3006 — Refactoring Branch (Draft)
• #2940 — Plotting refactor (Draft)

SasView/sasmodels (14 open PRs)

https://github.com/SasView/sasmodels/pulls

Merge candidates (approved review: 1)

• #533 — Fixed switched nomenclature for length and width

Needs review (13)

• #699 — Nanoprisms Model
• #694 — Pure python truncated octahedron
• #689 — Model for a mixture of two homopolymers (RPA case 0) (Draft; approved)
• #676 — Update examples and plotters for bumps webview
• #673 — Fix limits on angles and angular dispersity
• #665 — Send data mask from theory calculator into plotter
• #658 — Simple adaptive integration
• #651 — Allow sasmodels.compare to use bumps webview (no wx)
• #608 — Better integration
• #570 — Pure python Fq for beta approximation
• #536 — Oriented SESANS transform (Draft; changes requested)
• #507 — Paracrystalline model simulation
• #449 — WIP: spelling fixes in two_power_law (Draft; changes requested)

SasView/sasdata (8 open PRs)

https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pulls

Merge Candidates

• #47 — Finishing the manipulations.py rewrite

Needs review (5)

• #188 — Allow unrecognised units (Refactoring)
• #185 — Perf: optimize string concatenation using .join()
• #101 — 48 fractional binning (Draft)
• #79 — Refactoring Branch (Draft)
• #62 — Interpolations for data operations (Draft)

No reviews / not yet in review-required bucket (2)

• #156 — Work on the SasData object definition (Draft)
• #106 — Sasview database (Draft) - Jeff to get merged into refactor branch

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