On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > > > Hi Travis, > > > > It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to > > work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. > > > > I am slightly confused about roadmaps for numpy 1.8 and 2.0. This > > needs discussion on the ML, and our release manager currently is Ralf > > - he is the one who ultimately decides what goes when. > > Thank you for reminding me of this. Ralf and I spoke several days ago, and > have been working on how to give him more time to spend on SciPy full-time. > > Well, full-time is the job that I get paid for:) > > As a result, he will be release managing NumPy 1.7, but for NumPy 1.8, I will > be the release manager again. Ralf will continue serving as release manager > for SciPy. > > I had planned to bring this up only after the 1.7 release but yes, I would > like to push the balance of my open-source work a little from > release/maintenance work towards writing more new code. I've been doing both > NumPy and SciPy releases for about two years now, and it's time for me to > hand over the manager hat for one of those two. And my preference is to keep > on doing the SciPy releases rather than the NumPy ones. > > For NumPy 2.0 and beyond, Mark Wiebe will likely be the release manager. I > only know that I won't be release manager past NumPy 1.X. > > Travis, it's very good to see that the release manager role can be filled > going forward (it's not the most popular job), but I think the way it should > work is that people volunteer for this role and then the community agrees on > giving a volunteer that role. > > I actually started contributing when David asked for someone to take over > from him in the above manner. Maybe someone else will step up now, giving you > or Mark more time to work on new NumPy features (which I'm pretty sure you'd > prefer). > > > And you saved our ass. Numpy development would have ground to a stop without > your great work. Thanks. >
+10 -Travis
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