[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.11

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian at sipsolutions.net
> wrote:

> On So, 2015-08-16 at 14:04 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote:
> > 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.


> >       * Goals to meet:
> >               * __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.


> 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
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