[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:16 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Since Travis seems to want to take back control of scipy.stats, I am
>> considering my role as inofficial maintainer as ended.
>>
>> I would have appreciated his help almost 3 years ago, when I started
>> to learn numpy, scipy, and started to submit patches for
>> scipy.stats.distributions.
>>
>> But by now, I have pretty strong opinions about statistics in python,
>> after almost  three years, I'm a bit tired of cleaning up the mess of
>> others (and want to clean up my own mess), and there are obviously big
>> philosophical differences for the development process between me and
>> Travis (no discussion, no review, no tests).
>> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/log/trunk/scipy/stats/tests
>>
>> Watching the scipy changelog and checking any function that Travis
>> quietly commits is no fun (see mailing list for the introduction of
>> curve_fit or ask Stefan).
>>
>> I said early on that I would like to trust the results that
>> scipy.stats produces (although I don't find the mailing list thread
>> any more).
>>
>> I considered scipy to go into a stable direction like Python is,
>> kitchen sink for scientific programming, which might be slow-moving
>> but with high standards, and not a sandbox.
>>
>> Details are at
>> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2010-April/014058.html
>>
>> After my initial scipy.stats.distributions cleanup, test coverage was
>> at 91%, I have no idea where it is after this weekend.
>>
>> This is more about the process then the content, distributions was
>> Travis's baby (although unfinished), and most of his changes are very
>> good, but I don't want to look for the 5-10% (?) typos anymore.
>>
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> Ah Josef, there are easier ways to lodge complaints than resignation ;) I
> agree that it was rude of Travis to make those changes without running them
> through the list, and he does tend to toss stuff in that others have to
> clean up, the same with c-code. But maybe we can manage to get him
> housebroken without all moving out.

I think the discussion with him occurred already several times on the lists.

Josef


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