[SciPy-Dev] maintainership Sunday morning thoughts

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to share this excellent talk, "Rebuilding the cathedral", from
> Nadia Eghbal about how open source software gets maintained:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6IpvTWwkQ
>

Thanks for the link, good talk.

Considering the exponential growth in the number of users, I'm surprised
that NumPy/SciPy aren't completely swamped in bug reports. We're falling
behind, sure, but not as badly as might be expected.


> If you're a maintainer that experiences feeling guilty about not answering
> questions or reviewing PRs on Github quickly enough (I certainly do
> sometimes), or are a contributor that wonders why your well crafted PR
> doesn't get reviewed or merged, watching this talk may explain a few things.
>
> In terms of "rewards" for maintainership of SciPy, we could do better. One
> obvious thing is a paper that contributors can be co-authors on - this is
> one thing that we planned but didn't manage to do in the rush to get SciPy
> 1.0 polished and out the door. I'm seeing a bit of free time coming up, and
> fixing that omission is on my todo list for that time (really this time) -
> second email to follow shortly. More substantial rewards ($$) is a bit of a
> chicken-and-egg problem - it requires investing more time than anyone can
> put in at the moment to apply for funding. It'll be interesting to see how
> the dynamics of NumPy development change with the two grants for the next
> two years...
>
> Finally, a thank you to the people who've jumped in to fill the post-1.0
> code review gap we seem to be experiencing - mainly Ilhan, Andrew and Tyler.
>
>
Chuck
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