DevNotes_09Jan2024

Contributor camp planning: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/ContributorCampXII

• Updates:

  • Participant number and mix
  • Weather predictions
  • Travel to venue = 1.8 miles = 2.9 km - share rides?

• To suggest prior to camp

  • e-learning course https://e-learning.pan-training.eu/login/index.php
  • Model writing tutorial? https://www.sasview.org/downloads/creating_custom_fitting_models_in_sasview_v5.pdf
  • Coding practices? https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_DevGuide_CodingRules
    • Is this really uptodate? intro certainly needs editing
    • Should link the unit testing instructions here https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/Unit-testing-suites
      • Is this uptodate? it talks about importing unittest but then mentions we have moved to pytest?
  • environment set up? https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/DevNotes_DevGuide_GettingStarted
  • Tutorial writing tutorial? https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/TutorialsTNGForAuthors
    • Also list of currently planned tutorials? https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/TutorialsTNGList
  • ALSO
    • Need a "joining instructions" email indicating, address, time, where to meet, how to get there, carpool info etc.
    • Set up a spreadsheet for airport carpools
    • Need to add emergency contact
      • Create Whatsapp group besides Paul's cell
    • Can we get information about local sim cards

• Lecture, Discussion, Tutorials, Work mix

  • Lectures
    • Introduction to model writing
    • Introduction to documentation writing (SasView editors, rst and latex)
    • Using github and slack with SasView (repos, branches, issues, discussions, pull requests, wikis, etc)
    • The review process and pull requests
    • Advanced model writing topics
    • Good coding practices and SasView conventions
  • Tutorials
    • 1/2 day short course: Basic python concepts and using Jupyter notebooks to script sasview
    • What can SasView do for me: An overview of less well known features
  • Discussion Topics
    • Roadmap Discussion
    • Plotting refactoring
  • Suggest removing the stand-up time. Don't think it can work here. Replace with?

• Suggest pair/group programming projects might be helpful? Besides 6.0 release blockers/issues

  • AI/ML - Graham Roberts but also bigger discussions?
  • "materials models" from Irena and others (pore size distribution model +)?
  • "magSANS" (slicers, models integrated from marketplace, pol beam workflows)?
    • slicers = rheoSANS and other 2D analysis folks
  • web API and descendants (web GUI, better pipelining etc.)?
  • SasView Analytics
  • Bio tools/workflows and hydration code from pedersen
  • Sesans issues.
  • sasdata and Plotting refactor
  • build issues? (actions, conda, CI, signing)
  • .... PRISM?
  • Other thoughts or ideas?

• Status of preparing for camp

  • Release 6.0.0b1?: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/wiki/v6.0.0?
  • Release branches for sasdata and sasmodels?
  • Documentation editor?
  • Pull Requests

Discussions/AOB

• Users list enquiry about the raspberry model