[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.11

[Charles R Harris]

Hi All,

While waiting for Christoph to drop the other shoe on 1.10.0b1, I thought
I'd try again to start a discussion on the 1.11 release. If we want to get
the next release out in a timely manner there should be some advance
planning to cover at least the following three items


- Release manager: I can do that again, but would be more than happy to
let someone else give it a shot.
- Goals to meet:
- __numpy_ufunc__
- masked array and recarray fixups for astropy
- ?
- Release date to shoot for, I'd suggest Feb 1, 2016

Thoughts?

Chuck

[Sebastian Berg]

Post by Charles R Harris
Hi All,
While waiting for Christoph to drop the other shoe on 1.10.0b1, I
thought I'd try again to start a discussion on the 1.11 release. If we
want to get the next release out in a timely manner there should be
some advance planning to cover at least the following three items
* Release manager: I can do that again, but would be more than
happy to let someone else give it a shot.
* __numpy_ufunc__
* masked array and recarray fixups for astropy
* ?
* Release date to shoot for, I'd suggest Feb 1, 2016

Sounds good to me. Feb. 1 probably would mean a feature freeze in the
beginning of January? I guess we could try to push a bit harder to a
stricter 4 months cycle, but with the common and of year stress and
holiday season it sounds reasonable.

Can't think of any goal to explicitly meet [1], but I guess that is
mostly downstream wishes anyway ;).
Personally, I would like to see Pauli's overlap detection and the
proposed indexing changes by the next release. That should be doable,
but they are not that explicit goals.
Our Austin discussions might have some smaller stuff/wishes that should
have some priority.

- Sebastian


[1] However, I would very much like to see the organizational stuff to
be finalized this year. But I know it is probably quite a bit of work
which can drag on.

Post by Charles R Harris
Thoughts?
Chuck
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[Ralf Gommers]

Post by Sebastian Berg

Post by Charles R Harris
Hi All,
While waiting for Christoph to drop the other shoe on 1.10.0b1, I
thought I'd try again to start a discussion on the 1.11 release. If we
want to get the next release out in a timely manner there should be
some advance planning to cover at least the following three items
* Release manager: I can do that again, but would be more than
happy to let someone else give it a shot.

While I don't want to do the job, I will volunteer to help fix the
documentation on how to do this job where needed.

Post by Sebastian Berg

Post by Charles R Harris
* __numpy_ufunc__
* masked array and recarray fixups for astropy
* ?
* Release date to shoot for, I'd suggest Feb 1, 2016

Sounds good to me. Feb. 1 probably would mean a feature freeze in the
beginning of January? I guess we could try to push a bit harder to a
stricter 4 months cycle, but with the common and of year stress and
holiday season it sounds reasonable.

That means branching early to mid December, sounds fine to me.

Post by Sebastian Berg
Can't think of any goal to explicitly meet [1], but I guess that is
mostly downstream wishes anyway ;).
Personally, I would like to see Pauli's overlap detection and the
proposed indexing changes by the next release. That should be doable,
but they are not that explicit goals.
Our Austin discussions might have some smaller stuff/wishes that should
have some priority.
- Sebastian
[1] However, I would very much like to see the organizational stuff to
be finalized this year. But I know it is probably quite a bit of work
which can drag on.

not related to a release, but +10 for this goal

Ralf