Re: [matplotlib-devel] Requiring numpy requirement to 1.5 on master?

2013-01-15 Thread Phil Elson
@mdboom - that sounds like roaring agreement to me.  :-)
Lets go for it.


On 14 January 2013 20:34, Damon McDougall  wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Eric Firing  wrote:
> > On 2013/01/11 5:38 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> >> As pointed out in #1650, we have a bug on Python 3.x handling file-like
> >> objects that are UNIX FILEs, but not actual filesystem files, such as
> >> the sockets used for a urllib HTTP request.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1650
> >>
> >> As Christoph helpfully points out, Numpy has already solved this problem
> >> (since 1.5.0), so it would be easiest to just use their solution.
> >>
> >> For 1.2.x, I think we shouldn't update the Numpy requirement (which is
> >> currently 1.4) -- there, I'll have to port Numpy's compatibility
> >> functions to our code base.  But for master, I'd rather just use Numpy's
> >> stuff so all of the intricacies of this are handled in one place.
> >>
> >> (And as a detail, it isn't until Numpy 1.7 that a "CloseFile" function
> >> is provided, so even on master, we're stuck copying some code over).
> >>
> >> Any objections?
>
> Nope.
>
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Re: [matplotlib-devel] PR #1599

2013-01-15 Thread Damon McDougall
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Michael Droettboom  wrote:
> Alternatively, maybe we could divide the open PRs into numerical ranges
> amongst some volunteers, who could triage and assign them to the attention
> of the appropriate experts?

I like this idea.

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Re: [matplotlib-devel] Usefulness of Travis-CI

2013-01-15 Thread Eric Firing
On 2013/01/15 2:20 PM, Damon McDougall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, it has become more and more common that the travis builds
> fail.  They fail not because the test suite fails but because of some
> inherent issues with travis itself.  Usually, either the git clone
> fails or some other simple shell command fails.  I consider these
> 'failures' as being false negatives.  While a false negative once or
> twice a month would not be anything to worry about, I feel like this
> is happening often enough to render the pull request status extremely
> unhelpful.
>
> I realise the above is merely my opinion, but I feel that I would be
> surprised if others did not find the Travis' false negative hit rate
> tiresome.

Agreed.

>
> If practical, I would like to move away from travis and have our test
> suite run on a more reliable service.  How do others feel about this?
>

Good--but what is the superior alternative?

I know nothing about who offers such services, why they do so, or the 
quality of the service.

Eric

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