On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:24 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A little while ago I wrote a blog post about the history of us > constructing the roadmap we currently have: > https://rgommers.github.io/2018/10/the-making-of-the-numpy-roadmap/. > There was a request to post it to this list, which seems appropriate. So > below it is in full. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > > NumPy now has a [roadmap](https://www.numpy.org/neps/index.html#roadmap) > - long overdue and a major step forward for the project. We're not done > yet (see [my previous post]( > https://rgommers.github.io/2018/10/2018-numfocus-summit---a-summary/) on > this topic) and updating the technical roadmap with new ideas and > priorities should happen regularly. Despite everything having been done in > the open, via minutes of in-person meetings and shared roadmap drafts on > the numpy-discussion mailing list, it turns out that it's not completely > clear to the community and even some maintainers how we got to this point. > So now seems like a good time for a summary. > > ## Act 1: NumPy sprint at BIDS > > During 24-25 May 2018 a number of people - Stéfan van der Walt, Charles > Harris, Stephan Hoyer, Matti Picus, Jarrod Millman, Nathaniel J. Smith, and > Matthew Rocklin - came together at [BIDS](https://bids.berkeley.edu/) in > Berkeley for a NumPy sprint. They had a productive brainstorm, which > resulted in a rough draft of a roadmap posted to the mailing list. The > mailing list thread, [A roadmap for NumPy - longer term planning]( > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2018-June/thread.html#78103), > produced more suggestions and after incorporating those a [first pull > request](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11446) was made. > > Jaime Fernandez del Rio also attended that sprint. > ## Act 2: BoF and sprint at SciPy'18 > > In order to collect input from as many people in the community as > possible, a BoF ([birds of a feather]( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_(computing) session) was > held on 12 July 2018 during the SciPy 2018 conference in Austin. Stephan > Hoyer presented an overview of recent NEPs, and Matti Picus presented the > first roadmap draft and led a discussion with (I estimate) 30-40 people in > which a number of new ideas were added. Other maintainers present included > Charles Harris, Tyler Reddy, Ralf Gommers and Stéfan van der Walt; many > other participants were developers of libraries that depend on NumPy. > > At this point we had a fairly complete list of roadmap items, however the > document itself was still more a brainstorm dump than a roadmap document. > So during the NumPy sprint after the conference on 14 July 2018 Ralf > Gommers and Stephan Hoyer sat together to reshape and clean up these > ideas. That resulted in [roadmap draft v2]( > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/NumPy-roadmap-v2) - not yet fully > polished, but getting closer to something ready for acceptance. > > ## Act 3: NumPy sprint at BIDS > > In-person meetings seem to be critical to moving a complex and important > document like a project roadmap forward. So the next draft was produced > during a second NumPy sprint at Berkeley during 23-27 July 2018. Present > were Stéfan van der Walt, Matti Picus, Tyler Reddy and Ralf Gommers. We > polished the document, worked out the [Scope of NumPy]( > https://www.numpy.org/neps/scope.html) section in more detail, and > integrated the roadmap in the html docs. During the sprint a [pull > request](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11611) was sent, and > [posted]( > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2018-July/thread.html#78458) > again to the mailing list. Everyone seemed happy, and after addressing the > final few review comments the roadmap was merged on 2 August 2018. > > *Final thought: NumPy development is accelerating at the moment, and > in-person meetings and having the people and funding at BIDS to organize > sprints has been a huge help. See https://github.com/BIDS-numpy/docs for > an overview of what has been organized in the last year.* > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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