[SciPy-dev] Thoughts on when to make a full release of SciPy Core

[Travis Oliphant]

I've been thinking about when to make a full release of SciPy Core.

This is what I think needs to be done (in random order):

* Get full scipy working on top of it.
* Get records.py working.
* Get ma.py (Masked Arrays) working well.
* Write some tests for fft, linear algebra, and random code
* Port memory-mapped module from numarray.

Would like to have done (but not essential for first release):

* Fix scalar_as_number implementations to not go through ufuncs
* Optimizations