[SciPy-Dev] proposal to use SciPy project funds for build and CI improvements

[Ilhan Polat]

A +1 from me too. Even OpenBLAS for Windows build scripts in our docs are
stolen from his stuff (by yours truly) so making it a bit more supportive
and less sacrificial in terms of time and effort would make sense.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 8:40 PM Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2021, at 14:46, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
> I'd like to make a proposal to use some project funds to make faster
> progress on moving to a new build system and improving our CI timeout
> issues.
>
>
> Thank you for writing this proposal.  I think this will be of great
> benefit, not only to SciPy but also to NumPy and many other projects in the
> ecosystem.  It is wise to prepare in advance for the distutils deprecation.
>
> Because this is the first such proposal, let me first deal with the meta
> issue of _how_ to deal with this. At the start of the year I co-wrote NEP
> 48 (https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0048-spending-project-funds.html) to have
> a framework for NumPy for spending project funds. I'd like to follow that
> NEP also for SciPy. So I'll make the proposal here, in accordance with that
> NEP, and then the other thing is to figure out where to put it up as a PR
> (or wiki page, or ...). For that my proposal is: create a new repo called
> something like `project-mgmt`, where we can put such proposals as well as
> meeting minutes, presentations, and other content. And have a single
> summary page in Markdown format with a list of all proposals made, linking
> out to the full proposals.
>
>
> It would be great to have all these in one location.  We can figure out
> the exact mechanism later, but it would be helpful to have the documents
> link to relevant discussion (a GitHub Discussion/PR/Issue would be better
> than wiki page, e.g.; but a mailing list link would suffice too).
>
> I'd like to use 75% of the funds to pay Matthew, and 25% of the funds to
> take on a talented intern, Smit Lunagariya. He is comfortable working in
> Python, C and C++, and will be able to help with deliverables 7 and 8, as
> well as with testing and other tasks.
>
>
> +1
>
> Stéfan
>
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