mantidproject/mantid
Aug 2024 – Mar 2026
19 Months active
Languages Used
CMakePythonShellbashC++RSTcppYAML
Technical Skills
CMake scriptingLinuxLinux application deploymentPackage managementPython developmentShell scripting
Tom Hampson
PROFILE
Tom Hampson
Thomas Hampson contributed to the mantidproject/mantid repository by engineering robust build automation, packaging, and release workflows that improved deployment reliability and developer experience. He implemented automated nightly documentation publishing using Jenkins and scripting, streamlined dependency management with Conda and Python, and enhanced cross-platform packaging for Linux, Windows, and macOS. His work included stabilizing CI/CD pipelines, refining static analysis integration, and maintaining clear, up-to-date release documentation. By addressing environment consistency, test reliability, and artifact integrity, Thomas delivered solutions that reduced release risk and manual overhead. His technical depth is evident in his use of C++, CMake, and DevOps practices throughout.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
66%Features
Repository Contributions
143Total
Bugs
20
Commits
143
Features
38
Lines of code
14,196
Activity Months19
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143 peopleSame Organization
@stfc.ac.uk95
Work History
March 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 monthly summary for mantid project (mantidproject/mantid). Key feature delivered: Nightly Documentation Publication Pipeline implemented in Jenkins, enabling automated publishing of nightly Mantid docs. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: enhances developer and user access to up-to-date documentation, accelerates nightly release readiness, and reduces manual publication effort. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Jenkins CI/CD, scripting for packaging/install, and GitHub publishing.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 monthly summary for mantid project (mantidproject/mantid). Key feature delivered: Nightly Documentation Publication Pipeline implemented in Jenkins, enabling automated publishing of nightly Mantid docs. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: enhances developer and user access to up-to-date documentation, accelerates nightly release readiness, and reduces manual publication effort. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Jenkins CI/CD, scripting for packaging/install, and GitHub publishing.
March 2026
February 2026
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026: Focused on stabilizing the Mantid build and release pipeline. Delivered one feature update to the citation metadata and fixed two critical build-related issues that impact nightly publishing and dependency resolution. Outcomes include more reliable nightly docs publishing, deterministic builds, and accurate release metadata for Mantid 6.15.0. Demonstrated proficiency in git automation, packaging/run_exports, build tooling, and release readiness, delivering measurable business value through improved CI reliability and product traceability.
February 2026
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026: Focused on stabilizing the Mantid build and release pipeline. Delivered one feature update to the citation metadata and fixed two critical build-related issues that impact nightly publishing and dependency resolution. Outcomes include more reliable nightly docs publishing, deterministic builds, and accurate release metadata for Mantid 6.15.0. Demonstrated proficiency in git automation, packaging/run_exports, build tooling, and release readiness, delivering measurable business value through improved CI reliability and product traceability.
January 2026
7 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026Month 2026-01 focused on stabilizing the development and release workflow, while delivering targeted UX improvements. The team addressed environment crashes and dependency compatibility, improved CI/test reliability, and refined developer experience to support faster, safer releases and productive development.
7 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026Month 2026-01 focused on stabilizing the development and release workflow, while delivering targeted UX improvements. The team addressed environment crashes and dependency compatibility, improved CI/test reliability, and refined developer experience to support faster, safer releases and productive development.
January 2026
December 2025
11 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 summary for mantid project: Implemented automated pixi.lock maintenance with attribution controls and CI-ready updates, and hardened the CI/CD pipeline for forked PRs, tests, and docs builds. Delivered stability improvements across documentation and tests, and introduced governance enhancements to reduce manual overhead and improve release readiness.
December 2025
11 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 summary for mantid project: Implemented automated pixi.lock maintenance with attribution controls and CI-ready updates, and hardened the CI/CD pipeline for forked PRs, tests, and docs builds. Delivered stability improvements across documentation and tests, and introduced governance enhancements to reduce manual overhead and improve release readiness.
November 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025: Implemented a dedicated Anaconda testing channel for Mantid deployment, enabling safer, faster deployment of test packages and smoke tests while protecting the production mantid channel. Updated CI/CD: Jenkins pipeline now publishes test packages to mantid-test, introduced ANACONDA_CHANNEL as a validated choice parameter, and applied branch-based channel availability. Improved channel-credential mapping, documentation, and verification via a test pipeline run. This work reduces deployment errors, storage risk, and risk of manual deletions; supports more reliable releases (closes #40017).
1 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025: Implemented a dedicated Anaconda testing channel for Mantid deployment, enabling safer, faster deployment of test packages and smoke tests while protecting the production mantid channel. Updated CI/CD: Jenkins pipeline now publishes test packages to mantid-test, introduced ANACONDA_CHANNEL as a validated choice parameter, and applied branch-based channel availability. Improved channel-credential mapping, documentation, and verification via a test pipeline run. This work reduces deployment errors, storage risk, and risk of manual deletions; supports more reliable releases (closes #40017).
November 2025
October 2025
12 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for mantid project. Focused on developer experience, documentation, and release readiness. Delivered comprehensive documentation improvements and tooling updates reflecting pipeline/config changes; stabilized docs publishing and help links; streamlined nightly builds by removing obsolete macOS targets and hardening Windows installers; ensured Mantid 6.14 compatibility with MSlice and GUI enhancements; and updated release metadata for v6.14.0. These efforts improved pipeline transparency, reduced release risk, and enhanced accuracy of release artifacts and developer docs.
October 2025
12 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for mantid project. Focused on developer experience, documentation, and release readiness. Delivered comprehensive documentation improvements and tooling updates reflecting pipeline/config changes; stabilized docs publishing and help links; streamlined nightly builds by removing obsolete macOS targets and hardening Windows installers; ensured Mantid 6.14 compatibility with MSlice and GUI enhancements; and updated release metadata for v6.14.0. These efforts improved pipeline transparency, reduced release risk, and enhanced accuracy of release artifacts and developer docs.
September 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (mantidproject/mantid): Delivered targeted improvements across documentation, cross-platform guidance, and stability to enhance user experience and release quality. Key achievements include consolidating and indexing release notes for v6.15.0, providing performance guidance for macOS Arm vs Intel to help users choose the optimal build, and fixing a Windows Conda crash in Mantid Workbench by ensuring Qt WebEngine assets are correctly placed. These efforts improved onboarding and release communications, reduced platform-related support overhead, and increased stability across major environments.
5 Commits • 2 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (mantidproject/mantid): Delivered targeted improvements across documentation, cross-platform guidance, and stability to enhance user experience and release quality. Key achievements include consolidating and indexing release notes for v6.15.0, providing performance guidance for macOS Arm vs Intel to help users choose the optimal build, and fixing a Windows Conda crash in Mantid Workbench by ensuring Qt WebEngine assets are correctly placed. These efforts improved onboarding and release communications, reduced platform-related support overhead, and increased stability across major environments.
September 2025
August 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 20252025-08 Monthly summary for mantid project. Two primary focus areas delivered tangible business value: packaging stability and artifact integrity, and build reliability with improved developer experience. Packaging stability improved release reliability by ensuring the Linux stdlib selector is present, removing stale artifacts from release packages, and fixing Windows packaging to handle missing files, reducing post-release issues. Build reliability and developer experience improvements included upgrading static analysis tools, centralizing numpy version management in the build config, and refining developer docs formatting and VS2022 setup instructions, leading to fewer build issues and quicker onboarding. Overall impact includes more reliable CI/CD, faster release cycles, and improved developer productivity. Key commits span: c6a33d1766bbc28e2eb06fe6f7de26df85303d2c, 85626814139cae09916a8bb7368bf5e182c9a7c9, 18049abf6408a514812a69498f9dcab880b16378, 0cb2ed3d6e6b52192edf54c58ed71210aeb288cf, f02f0780a5f6a69c8548dd9879bc227dc2d20707, a793cdd48996807bb8b82892220ced4a79d61a51
August 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 20252025-08 Monthly summary for mantid project. Two primary focus areas delivered tangible business value: packaging stability and artifact integrity, and build reliability with improved developer experience. Packaging stability improved release reliability by ensuring the Linux stdlib selector is present, removing stale artifacts from release packages, and fixing Windows packaging to handle missing files, reducing post-release issues. Build reliability and developer experience improvements included upgrading static analysis tools, centralizing numpy version management in the build config, and refining developer docs formatting and VS2022 setup instructions, leading to fewer build issues and quicker onboarding. Overall impact includes more reliable CI/CD, faster release cycles, and improved developer productivity. Key commits span: c6a33d1766bbc28e2eb06fe6f7de26df85303d2c, 85626814139cae09916a8bb7368bf5e182c9a7c9, 18049abf6408a514812a69498f9dcab880b16378, 0cb2ed3d6e6b52192edf54c58ed71210aeb288cf, f02f0780a5f6a69c8548dd9879bc227dc2d20707, a793cdd48996807bb8b82892220ced4a79d61a51
July 2025
7 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mantid project focusing on release readiness, build/tooling stabilization, and Linux deployment robustness. Delivered structured release documentation, improved release workflow, upgraded tooling for code quality, and fixed installer deployment issues on Linux, reducing deployment risk and enhancing developer productivity across the platform.
7 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mantid project focusing on release readiness, build/tooling stabilization, and Linux deployment robustness. Delivered structured release documentation, improved release workflow, upgraded tooling for code quality, and fixed installer deployment issues on Linux, reducing deployment risk and enhancing developer productivity across the platform.
July 2025
June 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-06 focusing on business value and technical achievements in mantid (mantidproject/mantid).
June 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-06 focusing on business value and technical achievements in mantid (mantidproject/mantid).
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-05 highlighting delivered features, fixed bugs, and overall impact for mantid repository work. Emphasis on business value and technical achievement across cross-platform improvements and test stabilization.
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-05 highlighting delivered features, fixed bugs, and overall impact for mantid repository work. Emphasis on business value and technical achievement across cross-platform improvements and test stabilization.
May 2025
April 2025
8 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 performance summary for mantidproject/mantid focused on stabilizing builds, improving test reliability, and enhancing developer experience. Key packaging and dependency management work ensures consistent installations across environments, while targeted test adjustments and documentation improvements support smoother releases and clearer contributor guidance.
April 2025
8 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 performance summary for mantidproject/mantid focused on stabilizing builds, improving test reliability, and enhancing developer experience. Key packaging and dependency management work ensures consistent installations across environments, while targeted test adjustments and documentation improvements support smoother releases and clearer contributor guidance.
March 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025During March 2025, mantid project focused on packaging stability and runtime dependency reliability to improve install-time correctness and cross-platform deployment. Key outcomes include adding PyQtWebEngine as a runtime dependency in the MantidQt conda recipe to ensure correct installation during build and deployment, reverting the QuickBayes standalone installer update to restore prior behavior across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and pinning conda to version 25.1.1 to resolve Windows packaging CMake FindPython errors. These changes reduce build failures, improve user install experience, and lay groundwork for more robust GUI dependencies.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025During March 2025, mantid project focused on packaging stability and runtime dependency reliability to improve install-time correctness and cross-platform deployment. Key outcomes include adding PyQtWebEngine as a runtime dependency in the MantidQt conda recipe to ensure correct installation during build and deployment, reverting the QuickBayes standalone installer update to restore prior behavior across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and pinning conda to version 25.1.1 to resolve Windows packaging CMake FindPython errors. These changes reduce build failures, improve user install experience, and lay groundwork for more robust GUI dependencies.
March 2025
February 2025
34 Commits • 6 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (2025-02) monthly summary for mantid development. Focus this month centered on improving release readiness, packaging robustness, and CI/CD automation to support Mantid v6.12.0. Key features delivered include consolidated release notes aggregation for Mantid v6.12.0 across all components (diffr., direct geometry, indirect and inelastic, muon, reflectometry, SANS, framework, and workbench) with coordinated edits. Linux standalone packaging and launcher improvements were completed to streamline deployment: set XKB_CONFIG_ROOT at launch, rename the tarball launcher to mantidworkbench, and prune unneeded scripts. Code maintenance included a targeted refactor to rename a variable for clarity and consistency. Release notes updates for v6.12.0 across multiple components were consolidated and finalised, with formatting and link corrections. On the stability front, libopenblas was pinned to a known working version to stabilize builds, and a pre-move directory existence check was added to avoid macOS errors. Quality and automation enhancements included grammar/spellings/doc link corrections, adding a Jenkins pipeline description parameter, and switching the nightly publishing workflow back to main after the release. Overall impact: This month’s work reduced release risk and improved deployment reliability, enabling faster and more predictable releases. By consolidating release notes, tightening packaging, and enhancing CI/CD traceability, the Mantid project is better positioned to deliver stable builds to users with clearer documentation and streamlined deployment processes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Release management and notes consolidation, Linux packaging and launcher scripting, code maintenance (variable renaming), build stability (pinning libraries), macOS file handling safeguards, doc quality improvements, Jenkins CI/CD enhancements, and release workflow orchestration.
February 2025
34 Commits • 6 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (2025-02) monthly summary for mantid development. Focus this month centered on improving release readiness, packaging robustness, and CI/CD automation to support Mantid v6.12.0. Key features delivered include consolidated release notes aggregation for Mantid v6.12.0 across all components (diffr., direct geometry, indirect and inelastic, muon, reflectometry, SANS, framework, and workbench) with coordinated edits. Linux standalone packaging and launcher improvements were completed to streamline deployment: set XKB_CONFIG_ROOT at launch, rename the tarball launcher to mantidworkbench, and prune unneeded scripts. Code maintenance included a targeted refactor to rename a variable for clarity and consistency. Release notes updates for v6.12.0 across multiple components were consolidated and finalised, with formatting and link corrections. On the stability front, libopenblas was pinned to a known working version to stabilize builds, and a pre-move directory existence check was added to avoid macOS errors. Quality and automation enhancements included grammar/spellings/doc link corrections, adding a Jenkins pipeline description parameter, and switching the nightly publishing workflow back to main after the release. Overall impact: This month’s work reduced release risk and improved deployment reliability, enabling faster and more predictable releases. By consolidating release notes, tightening packaging, and enhancing CI/CD traceability, the Mantid project is better positioned to deliver stable builds to users with clearer documentation and streamlined deployment processes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Release management and notes consolidation, Linux packaging and launcher scripting, code maintenance (variable renaming), build stability (pinning libraries), macOS file handling safeguards, doc quality improvements, Jenkins CI/CD enhancements, and release workflow orchestration.
January 2025
17 Commits • 3 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 focused on stabilizing cross-platform builds, sharpening nightly release support, and improving code quality and user-facing messaging for Mantid. The work delivered stronger reliability for nightly packages, clearer documentation, and more robust binning logic in ConjoinWorkspaces, setting the stage for faster, safer releases and lower support overhead.
17 Commits • 3 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 focused on stabilizing cross-platform builds, sharpening nightly release support, and improving code quality and user-facing messaging for Mantid. The work delivered stronger reliability for nightly packages, clearer documentation, and more robust binning logic in ConjoinWorkspaces, setting the stage for faster, safer releases and lower support overhead.
January 2025
December 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mantid project. Focused on reducing noise in static analysis build output and enhancing release notes readability, delivering tangible business value through clearer diagnostics and improved communication of technical terms.
December 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mantid project. Focused on reducing noise in static analysis build output and enhancing release notes readability, delivering tangible business value through clearer diagnostics and improved communication of technical terms.
November 2024
4 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 performance for mantid (mantidproject/mantid): Strengthened static analysis quality and CI reliability by upgrading CppCheck to 2.16.0, configuring builds to run on Unix, and refining suppression rules to reduce noise while preserving actionable diagnostics. Also resolved an issue that blocked cppcheck runs by fixing a comment typo in ConvertToConstantL2.cpp, enabling faster validation. These updates improve code quality gates, reduce false positives, and support smoother release cycles for the Mantid project.
4 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 performance for mantid (mantidproject/mantid): Strengthened static analysis quality and CI reliability by upgrading CppCheck to 2.16.0, configuring builds to run on Unix, and refining suppression rules to reduce noise while preserving actionable diagnostics. Also resolved an issue that blocked cppcheck runs by fixing a comment typo in ConvertToConstantL2.cpp, enabling faster validation. These updates improve code quality gates, reduce false positives, and support smoother release cycles for the Mantid project.
November 2024
October 2024
11 Commits • 5 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 focused on stabilizing cross-platform workflows, modernizing string handling, and strengthening test and documentation quality in Mantid. Key outcomes include standardized Windows Workbench launcher usage for Windows debugging, and a broader effort to reduce Boost dependencies by migrating string prefix/suffix checks to standard library equivalents. We fixed robust log parsing with case-insensitive ICPevent.txt handling. Technical excellence was maintained through targeted code quality improvements and test fixes (cppcheck findings, const-correctness, and Boost header coverage) and by documenting best practices for using Boost string algorithms versus std utilities. These changes deliver tangible business value: faster onboarding and debugging on Windows, reduced dependency surface, more reliable logging, improved maintainability, and clearer development guidance.
October 2024
11 Commits • 5 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 focused on stabilizing cross-platform workflows, modernizing string handling, and strengthening test and documentation quality in Mantid. Key outcomes include standardized Windows Workbench launcher usage for Windows debugging, and a broader effort to reduce Boost dependencies by migrating string prefix/suffix checks to standard library equivalents. We fixed robust log parsing with case-insensitive ICPevent.txt handling. Technical excellence was maintained through targeted code quality improvements and test fixes (cppcheck findings, const-correctness, and Boost header coverage) and by documenting best practices for using Boost string algorithms versus std utilities. These changes deliver tangible business value: faster onboarding and debugging on Windows, reduced dependency surface, more reliable logging, improved maintainability, and clearer development guidance.
August 2024
3 Commits
Aug 1, 20242024-08 monthly summary: Mantid Workbench Linux launcher packaging and execution fixes focused on reliability and packaging consistency. Implemented critical launcher improvements that reduce startup failures on Linux and align standalone packaging with runtime behavior. The work demonstrates strong scripting, Python execution handling, and packaging automation, delivering tangible business value to Linux users and the Mantid community.
3 Commits
Aug 1, 20242024-08 monthly summary: Mantid Workbench Linux launcher packaging and execution fixes focused on reliability and packaging consistency. Implemented critical launcher improvements that reduce startup failures on Linux and align standalone packaging with runtime behavior. The work demonstrates strong scripting, Python execution handling, and packaging automation, delivering tangible business value to Linux users and the Mantid community.
August 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness94.6%
Maintainability93.8%
Architecture91.0%
Performance88.8%
AI Usage20.2%
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Programming Languages
BashC++CFFCMakeGroovyJavaScriptJenkinsfileMarkdownNSISPython
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Algorithm DevelopmentAnacondaBoostBoost LibrariesBug FixBuild AutomationBuild ConfigurationBuild EngineeringBuild ScriptingBuild SystemBuild System ConfigurationBuild SystemsC++C++ DevelopmentC++ Standard Library
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