[SciPy-user] maskedarray

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:17:30PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 7:24 AM, Pierre GM <pgmdevlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 15:48:01 Tom Johnson wrote:
> > > What is the status regarding 'maskedarray'?  When will this become
> > > part (replace ma) of the standard distribution?  Also, what is the
> > > recommended way to import sandbox modules so that code changes are
> > > minimized when (if) the package becomes part of the standard
> > > distribution.
> >
> >
> > Mmh, no answer from our leaders ? Well, for now maskedarray lives in the scipy
> > sandbox, but it probably could be transferred to the numpy sandbox. There's
> > still no particular decision I'm aware of about putting it the official
> > release. More feedback is probably needed from users.
> 
> Well, I'm certainly not one of the leaders, but it's probably worth
> mentioning that this weekend Jarrod is organizing a small sprint at UC
> Berkeley to try to flush out a number of things for numpy/scipy.  And
> last weekend John Hunter and I taught a workshop at NCAR here in
> Boulder, where they expressed a LOT of interest in seeing the MA
> situation resolved, and were willing to commit resources to making it
> happen (their codes rely on MA throughout).  So I added MA to the
> sprint todo list already, counting on NCAR's resources once a decision
> is made.  I'd meant to mention it here and just hadn't had the time
> for it.

If you guys organise sprints, please let the rest of us know so that
we can work together online (if possible).

Thanks!
Stéfan