[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats

[David Goldsmith]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:28 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:16 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > 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.
>

Right.  I don't think we can house break him 'cause he feels like he owns
the house; I think he thinks of himself as our (NS)BDFL.

DG


>
> Josef
>
>
> > Chuck
>
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