On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:55 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > Thanks Chuck, I'll update the post for that. Cheers, Ralf > >> ## 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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