On 2/15/2012 1:50 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > I believe that leaving the governance informal and underspecified at > this stage would be a grave mistake, for everyone concerned.
To justify that concern, can you point to an analogous case, where things went awry by not formalizing the governance structure? Can you provide an example where a more formal governance structure for NumPy would have meant more or better code development? (Please do not suggest the NA discussion!) Can you provide an example of what you might envision as a "more formal governance structure"? (I assume that any such structure will not put people who are not core contributors to NumPy in a position to tell core contributors what to spend their time on.) Early last December, Chuck Harris estimated that three people were active NumPy developers. I liked the idea of creating a "board" of these 3 and a rule that says any active developer can request to join the board, that additions are determined by majority vote of the existing board, and that having the board both small and odd numbered is a priority. I also suggested inviting to this board a developer or two from important projects that are very NumPy dependent (e.g., Matplotlib). I still like this idea. Would it fully satisfy you? Still, honestly, I have trouble seeing how implementing this idea would currently have much affect on the substance or extent or direction of the conversations about NumPy. Thanks, Alan PS Just to jog the group memory, Travis announced more than four months ago *on this list* that he had "been approached about the possibility of creating a foundation to support the development of SciPy and NumPy", and had become interested in creating a "Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Computing Using High Level Abstractions (FASTECUHLA)", and had created an open discussion list for this at fastecu...@googlegroups.com _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
