[Numpy-discussion] NumPy sprints at Scipy 2013, Austin: call for topics and hands to help

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:51 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:23 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I agreed to help organising NumPy sprints during the scipy 2013
> >> conference in Austin.
> >>
> >> As some of you may know, Stéfan and me will present a tutorial on
> >> NumPy C code, so if we do our job correctly, we should have a few new
> >> people ready to help out during the sprints.
> >>
> >> It would be good to:
> >>   - have some focus topics for improvements
> >>   - know who is going to be there at the sprint to work on things
> >> and/or help newcomers
> >>
> >> Things I'd like to work on myself is looking into splitting things
> >> from multiarray, think about a better internal API for dtype
> >> registration/hooks (with the goal to remove any date dtype hardcoding
> >> in both multiarray and ufunc machinery), but I am sure others have
> >> more interesting ideas :)
> >>
> >
> > I'd like to get a 1.8 beta out or at least get to the point where we can
> > make that leap.
>
> Sure, I am fine doing this in a branch post 1.8.x, I am not in a hurry.
>
> > There is a lot of new stuff that needs to be tested, PR's to
> > go through, and I have a suspicion that a memory allocation error might
> have
> > crept in somewhere.
>
> Will you be there at the conference ?
>

Yes. I'm not very good at sprinting though. I prefer to amble with a big
screen, nice keyboard, and a cup of coffee ;)

Chuck
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