April 2026 monthly summary for mxcube/mxcubeweb focusing on maintainability and release reliability through targeted code cleanup and CI/CD improvements. The work delivered reduces dead code in the authentication path and tightens CI/CD processes, with clearer documentation signals via updated badges, thereby improving release confidence and developer onboarding.

March 2026 monthly summary for the mxcubeweb repository. Deliverables focused on accuracy, reliability, and user experience, with clear business value and maintainable code. Key features delivered: - Sample View Adapter Improvements: improved shape positioning accuracy by using the omega value instead of phi; refactored for clarity in SampleViewAdapter. (Commit: 2df25da8b0cb5a1252418df9df53ed4ae6fb5f8a; 7e79cac8a1c28b4ed624cf770b2f40903a5e89c2) - SSO-aware Sign-out: enhanced sign-out flow to support SSO data and improved error handling during login failures. (Commit: 98a4071e0e910372b46c17bc1e89ad6f6a44433d) - User Input Validation Enhancement: allowed commas and spaces in strings to increase user input flexibility. (Commit: 010f12cdd612969fcf38785482bb03eaa39ea97f) - Queue System Cleanup: cleaned unused variables and improved maintainability in queue.py. (Commit: b9b3a6218fba8ceb4bf2206dd83d480c7ea22b12) - UI Polish and Text Consistency: British English terminology and label spelling improvements in UI components and related JS files. (Commits: be3c2255687d2870c33416672ab407178bf113ee; ac101a45888dcd8032ecd137f90571bf5b9b2ad9) Major bugs fixed: - Sign-out Argument Name Fix: corrected the argument name in the signout method call to ensure proper logout behavior. (Commit: f2911dc431e9a94278e8f00c1c2dffcf8afa1d23) - Task Progress Accuracy Improvement: improved get_task_progress accuracy by verifying whether a node has been executed, removing a temporary workaround. (Commit: 0e8e22517d4e0e8c63219767b6e6bbc4fc4bba33) Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability and security of the authentication flow with SSO-aware sign-out, reducing login/logout errors and support tickets. - Improved data accuracy and user experience in the Sample View, enabling more precise sample positioning workflows. - Enhanced input flexibility reduces user friction in data entry, supporting broader usage scenarios. - Code quality improvements in the queue system and UI text consistency reduce maintenance burden and future defects. - Collaborative development across frontend and backend teams, with visible contributions in multiple commits. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python and frontend JavaScript/React components, with refactoring and input validation patterns. - SSO integration and robust error handling approaches. - Input sanitization and UX text consistency best practices. - Maintainability and readability improvements through code cleanup and naming corrections. Business value: - Fewer logout-related incidents, faster task execution and feedback cycles for users, and a more reliable platform for processing sample workflows.

September 2025 monthly summary focusing on targeted bug fix and maintenance of the mxcubecore repository, improving error reporting accuracy without affecting LIMS integration.

August 2025, mxcubecore: Implemented CI improvement by constraining SonarQube analysis to the main repository, eliminating CI runs on forks and external PRs. This change reduces CI queue time, lowers compute costs, and increases analysis accuracy for core contributions. Delivered through two commits: 4947e54ce1fab8a16908fa27beb0c809c20980d5 ("Only run SonarQube on main repository") and d9fc2e0c179f14cbcd0819e828965bed1935b521 ("Prevent SonarQube to run on PRs made from forks").

July 2025: Focused on stabilizing detector initialization by addressing a configuration access issue in AbstractDetector. Moved configuration reading from __init__ to init so properties like beam metadata, images per file, detector distance, ROI modes, pixel size, width, and height are initialized after hardware setup, resolving access errors during startup. This change improves startup reliability and overall readiness of the imaging pipeline in mxcubecore.

March 2025 focused on data integrity improvements and hardware compatibility across mxcubecore and mxcubeweb. Delivered targeted fixes with minimal risk changes, improving data accuracy, system reliability, and interoperability with external hardware. Key work includes correcting a metadata key typo for container capacity and updating actuator type hints to allow None for limits, enhancing robustness and downstream reporting.

February 2025 monthly summary for mxcube repositories. Focused on release tagging automation and workflow reliability across core and web applications. Delivered cross-repo CI/CD improvements to standardize version derivation, tag generation, and compatibility with modern GitHub Actions runners. Implemented Poetry-based versioning, moved tag handling to environment variables, and eliminated deprecated workflow constructs to reduce release risk and manual intervention.

January 2025 monthly summary for mxcubecore focuses on tightening CI reliability by removing outdated runtimes from the testing matrix. Delivered a feature to drop Python 3.7 from the CI test matrix, ensuring tests run only on actively supported Python versions. This reduces maintenance overhead, shortens feedback cycles, and improves stability for downstream users and developers.