[Numpy-discussion] Introduction: NumPy developers at BIDS

[Matti Picus]

On 08/04/18 21:02, Eric Firing wrote:
> On 2018/04/07 9:19 PM, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
>> We would love community input on identifying the best areas & issues to
>> pay attention to,
>
> Stefan,
>
> What is the best way to provide this, and how will the decisions be made?
>
> Eric
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Hi. I feel very lucky to be able to dedicate the next phase of my career to working on NumPy. Even though BIDS has hired me, I view myself as working for the community, in an open and transparent way. In thinking about how to help make NumPy contributors more productive, we laid out these tasks:

- triage open issues and pull requests, picking up some of the long-standing issues and trying to resolve them

- help with code review
  
- review and suggest improvements to the NumPy documentation

- if needed, help with releases and infrastructure maintenance tasks

Down the road, the next level of things would be

- setting up a benchmark site like speed.python.org

- add more downstream package testing to the NumPy CI so we can verify that new releases work with packages such as scipy, scikit-learn, astropy

To document my work, I have set up a wikihttps://github.com/mattip/numpy/wiki  that lists some longer-term tasks and ideas. I look forward to meeting and working with Tyler as well as SciPy2018 where there will be both a BOF meeting to discuss NumPy and a two-day sprint.

BIDS is ultimately responsible to the funders to make sure my work achieves the goals Stefan laid out, but I am going to try to be as responsive as possible to any input from the wider community, either directly (mattip on github and #numpy on IRC), via email, or this mailing list.

Matti