DevNotes_08Nov2022

November 8, 2022 Meeting

• Code Camp Debrief
  • new repo for admin tickets
  • new PR template to help with reviews
  • Roadmap to be updated from discussion then reviewed
  • FFT methods discussion.
• issue cleanup
  • A significant number of issues were closed or moved to discussion during code camp.
  • Need more work to clean out... Also in sasmodels
• branch cleanup
  • The number of branches is getting out of hand. Some cleanup has started but more is needed. See issue #2370
• Next release?
  • Normally we aim towards a release post code camp activity. This is now complicated given the large number of changes to main, some of which will probably break backward compatibility (the price of success?).
  • There is the added complication of the self-imposed feature parity. This is partly to help migrate the relatively large number of folks who are still using 4.x which we can no longer support.
  • These levels of changes probably requires jumping to 6.0. Further testing will need to be very rigorous.
  • On the other hand we cannot wait "forever" for a release to the larger community. One option might be to make a point release, e.g. 5.0.6 with some small but impactful number of the bug fixes in main? But this will require diverting resources...
• Pull Requests (sasmodels, sasview, sasmodels-marketplace, sasdata?)
  • SasView PRs: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/pulls
  • Sasmodels PRs: https://github.com/SasView/sasmodels/pulls
  • Sasdata PRs: https://github.com/SasView/sasdata/pulls
• Discussion on sasview issues
  • on #2370 see comments added about agreement to move toward more normalized naming of branches and linking to issues.
• Fork vs Branch discussion
• AOB?