2025-10 Monthly Summary: Focused on improving reliability of channel selection in the spm/spm repository. The key deliverable was a targeted bug fix in spm_opm_psd that enables explicit channel selection and differentiates explicit inputs from regex-based selections, ensuring provided channels are correctly identified and processed. This strengthens robustness of PSD computations and data integrity for channel-specific analyses. Commit 4a67d92083149398f8dd7ee155f1dfb6af88c890: [Bug fix] Allow explicit channel selection. Overall impact: reduced edge-case failures and smoother downstream reporting. Technologies/skills demonstrated: precise input handling, targeted bug fixes, and maintainable code changes.

September 2025 monthly summary — Delivered a documentation-only update to MATLAB file headers to attribute authorship for mesh functions, enhancing attribution accuracy and contributor visibility without impacting runtime. The change was committed to spm/spm (commit 9c6c52775101ab07a8fd325e9a61788a91ea1726). No functional code changes or major bug fixes were required this month; focus remained on governance, traceability, and knowledge transfer, strengthening onboarding and collaboration. Overall, the work improves maintainability, auditing, and team efficiency by clarifying authorship and ownership of core mesh-related utilities. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Git-based version control, documentation practices, MATLAB header conventions, and repository governance.

Month: 2025-05 summary for spm/spm. Focused on stabilizing MEEGtools by delivering a key bug fix to channel-subset interactivity, improving reliability of channel/frequency selections and downstream analyses. This enhances data integrity for MEEG workflows and reduces user troubleshooting time. The work demonstrates solid MATLAB/SPM toolbox development, robust Git-based changes, and a clearer path for future QA cycles.

April 2025 monthly summary: Delivered targeted improvements across documentation, AMM core, and diagnostics tooling, driving reproducibility, robustness, and usability. Notable outcomes include clarified versioning guidance, more flexible coordinate handling, robust spheroid fitting, and an interactive diagnostic UI that speeds issue identification.

March 2025 monthly summary for spm/spm: Focused on contributor onboarding and governance by delivering SPM Contributor Guidelines and Contribution Process to streamline external participation. No major bug fixes were completed this month. The initiative clarifies how to ask questions, report bugs, suggest enhancements, and contribute code, and it separates repository contributions for code and documentation site improvements, improving collaboration and quality assurance. This foundation supports faster onboarding, higher quality contributions, and clearer expectations for maintainers. Technologies demonstrated include documentation best practices, Git workflow hygiene, and cross-functional collaboration.

February 2025 (spm/spm) focused on strengthening contribution governance and risk mitigation through an automated CLA workflow. Implemented a GitHub Actions-based CLA enforcement workflow (cla.yml) to require CLA signing before merges, with customized messaging for contributors, an updated CLA document path, and a controlled option to revert to default notification text when needed. Four maintenance commits refined the workflow: 5e1aa07b96dcf77a60458b886033f4a9c071ab20 (Create cla.yml), 2eb6fde2b95f55aaae0a7c1fa9a4177d0897879a (Customise CLA statement), fd3b540098c9f4bced593893209a72f21acfad40 (Update cla.yml), e3ad61d3254e8a5c953031e81aa73b56f0a1f25b (revert cla.yml to default text). No major bugs fixed this month based on available data. Overall impact: reduces legal/compliance risk, accelerates contribution onboarding, and improves PR governance and quality. Technologies/skills demonstrated: GitHub Actions, YAML, CLA policy enforcement, repository maintenance, and change management.