[SciPy-dev] Update and "open issues"

[David Goldsmith]

Thanks, David.  Have you now opened a ticket?

DG

--- On Wed, 7/22/09, David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:

> From: David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu>
> Subject: Re: [SciPy-dev] Update and "open issues"
> To: d_l_goldsmith at yahoo.com, "SciPy Developers List" <scipy-dev at scipy.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 1:54 PM
> Hi David,
> 
> I mentioned this on the list a while ago but forgot to open
> a ticket:
> 
> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.where.html?highlight=where#numpy.where
> 
> Notice the crossreference link to nonzero() is wrong; it
> sends you to the C API when it should send you to the Python
> function in the same subpackage. I'm not sure how to debug
> this, or if there's a systematic way to find other instances
> where this is happening and fix them.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On 22-Jul-09, at 3:34 PM, d_l_goldsmith at yahoo.com
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > OK, since no one's RSVP-ed in the affirmative, and no
> one's Skyping me, I'll just post an "Update and Open
> Issues":
> > 
> > Update
> > ------
> > 
> > 0) Jack Liddle has fulfilled his promise to draft a
> Scipy "Milestones" page (i.e., analogous to the Numpy
> "Milestones" page):
> > 
> > http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/Milestones/
> > 
> > Nice job, Jack, thanks!!!
> > 
> > 1) I've added "Reviewer Guidelines" for both technical
> and presentation
> > reviewers to the "Questions and Answers" page on the
> Numpy Wiki (please discuss these there).
> > 
> > 2) "Basic Objects" on the Numpy "Milestones" page is
> all but Goal Met - only two (not Unimportant) items remain
> to be brought to "Needs Review" status: ndarray.strides
> (I'll give it the old "college try," but I'd really
> appreciate it if someone w/ a "deeper" understanding _and_ a
> talent for clear explanation could try to tackle this one),
> and numpy.ufunc (i.e., the class itself) about which there's
> an Open Issue (see below).
> > 
> > Open Issues
> > -----------
> > 
> > 0) Presently, _class_ numpy.ufunc is documented as if
> it were a function, and not to function spec to boot (albeit
> for reasons which make some sense once you see how it
> deviates).  IMO, it should be documented as the class
> that it is, but I'm sympathetic to the reason(s) it's done
> as it presently is, so I'm open to being convinced. 
> However, it's present deviations are inconsistent w/ the
> pydocweb application, so if we keep it "as is," we need to
> decide whether we care, and if so, ticket(s) to make the ap
> compliant need to filed.
> > 
> > The rest are courtesy of Ralf:
> > 
> > 1) Ralf would "like to be able to do a few more things
> on the wiki like make things 'Unimportant,' set things to
> 'Reviewed, Needs Work,' etc. (That way [he doesn't] have to
> leave comments in the hope Pauli will spot them eventually.
> [He's] always hesitant to add things to [Pauli's] mountain
> of TODOs.)"
> > 
> > 2) An update on prospects for future funding. 
> (Joe?)  (Perhaps I, DG, should add this to the
> 'Q&A' so that Joe has a convenient way and place to
> update us all as things develop...)
> > 
> > 
> > OK, that's what I have; email me anything you want to
> add.
> > 
> > DG
> > 
> > 
> > 
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