[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

> But that doesn't give you free rein to indulge in psychoanalysis as to
> motives and such. What we have here is a set of insufficiently discussed and
> documented last minute commits to deal with. I can sympathize with Josef
> because stats has been his baby and these commits have bypassed his quality
> control and made work for him. I got a similar complaint from Pierre when I
> went a bit too far in touching masked arrays. We are a rather loose
> community without much in the way of rules or means to enforce them, so we
> have to work things out as we go. To that end it helps if the rhetoric stays
> on the cool side.

Y'all probably saw I moved this over and started another thread, I
hope you don't mind.

That's absolutely right - it's good to be cool - but it's also true
that, because we have no rules, this kind of mess and bad feeling is
bound to arise.  I think honestly that unless we do find some clarity
to the (sorry) politics of the current situation, we're going to keep
losing people that we really need - like Josef - because they don't
trust our discipline to maintain the code.

See you,

Matthew