[SciPy-Dev] maintainership Sunday morning thoughts

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

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

I think it's because there is no "swamp of bugs".
I have the impression in keeping roughly track of scipy issues and PRs that
PR review and unit testing works very well so that only occasional bugs
escape and bug the users.

Josef


>
>
>> 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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