Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi,

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:14, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:

 I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you
 would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its
 contents.

 Thank you - sadly I am not confident in deserving your confidence, but
 I will do my best to say something sensible.   Any objections to a
 public google doc?

 Even better!

I've put up a draft here:

numpy-whaley-support -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gPhUUjWqNpRatw90kCqL1WPWvn1yicf2VAowWSyHlno/edit?hl=en_USauthkey=CPv49_cK

I didn't know who to put as signatories.  Maybe an extended steering
group like (from http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone):

Jarrod Millman
Eric Jones
Robert Kern
Travis Oliphant
Stefan van der Walt

plus:

Pauli
Ralf
Chuck

or something like that?  Anyone else care to sign / edit?  Mark W for
example?  Sorry, I haven't been following the numpy commits very
carefully of late.

Best,

Matthew
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-26 Thread Pearu Peterson
Hi,

Would it be possible to setup a signing system where anyone who would like
to support Clint could sign and advertise the system on relevant mailing
lists?
This would provide larger body of supporters for this letter and perhaps
will have greater impact to whom the letter will be
addressed. Personally, I would be happy to sign to such a letter.

On the letter: the letter should also mention scipy community as they
benefit
most from the ATLAS speed.

Best regards,
Pearu


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:14, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi,
 
  On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you
  would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its
  contents.
 
  Thank you - sadly I am not confident in deserving your confidence, but
  I will do my best to say something sensible.   Any objections to a
  public google doc?
 
  Even better!

 I've put up a draft here:

 numpy-whaley-support -

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gPhUUjWqNpRatw90kCqL1WPWvn1yicf2VAowWSyHlno/edit?hl=en_USauthkey=CPv49_cK

 I didn't know who to put as signatories.  Maybe an extended steering
 group like (from http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone):

 Jarrod Millman
 Eric Jones
 Robert Kern
 Travis Oliphant
 Stefan van der Walt

 plus:

 Pauli
 Ralf
 Chuck

 or something like that?  Anyone else care to sign / edit?  Mark W for
 example?  Sorry, I haven't been following the numpy commits very
 carefully of late.

 Best,

 Matthew
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi,

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Pearu Peterson
pearu.peter...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Would it be possible to setup a signing system where anyone who would like
 to support Clint could sign and advertise the system on relevant mailing
 lists?
 This would provide larger body of supporters for this letter and perhaps
 will have greater impact to whom the letter will be
 addressed. Personally, I would be happy to sign to such a letter.

 On the letter: the letter should also mention scipy community as they
 benefit
 most from the ATLAS speed.

Maybe it would be best phrased then as 'numpy and scipy developers'
instead of the steering group?

I'm not sure how this kind of thing works for tenure letters, I would
guess that if there are a very large number of signatures it might be
difficult to see who is being represented...  I'm open to suggestions.
 I can also ask Clint.

I've added you as an editor - would you consider adding your name at
the end, and maybe something about scipy? - you know the scipy blas /
lapack stuff much better than I do.

Cheers,

Matthew
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Brett
Oh sorry and:

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:14, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:

 I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you
 would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its
 contents.

 Thank you - sadly I am not confident in deserving your confidence, but
 I will do my best to say something sensible.   Any objections to a
 public google doc?

 Even better!

 I've put up a draft here:

 numpy-whaley-support -
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gPhUUjWqNpRatw90kCqL1WPWvn1yicf2VAowWSyHlno/edit?hl=en_USauthkey=CPv49_cK

 I didn't know who to put as signatories.  Maybe an extended steering
 group like (from http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone):

 Jarrod Millman
 Eric Jones
 Robert Kern
 Travis Oliphant
 Stefan van der Walt

 plus:

 Pauli
 Ralf
 Chuck

David C...

Sorry - I was up very late last night.

Cheers,

Matthew
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-26 Thread Pearu Peterson
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Pearu Peterson
 pearu.peter...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Would it be possible to setup a signing system where anyone who would
 like
  to support Clint could sign and advertise the system on relevant mailing
  lists?
  This would provide larger body of supporters for this letter and perhaps
  will have greater impact to whom the letter will be
  addressed. Personally, I would be happy to sign to such a letter.
 
  On the letter: the letter should also mention scipy community as they
  benefit
  most from the ATLAS speed.

 Maybe it would be best phrased then as 'numpy and scipy developers'
 instead of the steering group?

 I'm not sure how this kind of thing works for tenure letters, I would
 guess that if there are a very large number of signatures it might be
 difficult to see who is being represented...  I'm open to suggestions.
  I can also ask Clint.

 I've added you as an editor - would you consider adding your name at
 the end, and maybe something about scipy? - you know the scipy blas /
 lapack stuff much better than I do.


Done for adding the name. The document is currently numpy oriented and I am
not sure where to enter with scipy..

Technical summary of the situation with scipy blas/lapack stuff:
The main difference in between numpy and scipy lapack-wise is that numpy has
a lite C version of few lapack routines in case the lapack libraries are not
available for building it while for scipy the lapack libraries are
prerequisites as scipy provides interfaces to a much larger number of lapack
routines. Having ATLAS in addition would greatly increase the performance of
these routines.

Pearu
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-04 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi,

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:07, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Ralf Gommers
 ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Hi,

 This is just to follow up on a dead thread of mine a little while back.

 I was asking about letters for Clint Whaley's tenure case, from numpy,
 but I realized that I don't know who 'numpy' is :)

 Is there in fact a numpy steering group?    Who is best to write
 letters representing the 'numpy community'?

 At http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone there's a list of people under a
 big header steering committee. It seems to me that writing such a
 letter representing the community is one of the purposes that
 committee could serve.

 Ah - yes - thanks for the reply.

 In the interests of general transparency - and given that no-one from
 that group has replied to this email - how should the group best be
 addressed?   By personal email?  That seems to break the open-source
 matra of everything on-list:

 http://producingoss.com/en/setting-tone.html#avoid-private-discussions

 Having project-relevant *discussions* on-list doesn't preclude getting
 someone's *attention* off-list.

Yes, that's true.   My worry was that, having put the question on the
list, and not had an answer, it might send a bad signal if it was
obvious that I had only got a reply because I'd asked for one
off-list.

 I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you
 would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its
 contents.

Thank you - sadly I am not confident in deserving your confidence, but
I will do my best to say something sensible.   Any objections to a
public google doc?

See you,

Matthew
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:14, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:

 I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you
 would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its
 contents.

 Thank you - sadly I am not confident in deserving your confidence, but
 I will do my best to say something sensible.   Any objections to a
 public google doc?

Even better!

-- 
Robert Kern

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth.
  -- Umberto Eco
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-03 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi,

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Ralf Gommers
ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Hi,

 This is just to follow up on a dead thread of mine a little while back.

 I was asking about letters for Clint Whaley's tenure case, from numpy,
 but I realized that I don't know who 'numpy' is :)

 Is there in fact a numpy steering group?    Who is best to write
 letters representing the 'numpy community'?

 At http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone there's a list of people under a
 big header steering committee. It seems to me that writing such a
 letter representing the community is one of the purposes that
 committee could serve.

Ah - yes - thanks for the reply.

In the interests of general transparency - and given that no-one from
that group has replied to this email - how should the group best be
addressed?   By personal email?  That seems to break the open-source
matra of everything on-list:

http://producingoss.com/en/setting-tone.html#avoid-private-discussions

Thanks again,

Matthew
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-05-03 Thread Robert Kern
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:07, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Ralf Gommers
 ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Hi,

 This is just to follow up on a dead thread of mine a little while back.

 I was asking about letters for Clint Whaley's tenure case, from numpy,
 but I realized that I don't know who 'numpy' is :)

 Is there in fact a numpy steering group?    Who is best to write
 letters representing the 'numpy community'?

 At http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone there's a list of people under a
 big header steering committee. It seems to me that writing such a
 letter representing the community is one of the purposes that
 committee could serve.

 Ah - yes - thanks for the reply.

 In the interests of general transparency - and given that no-one from
 that group has replied to this email - how should the group best be
 addressed?   By personal email?  That seems to break the open-source
 matra of everything on-list:

 http://producingoss.com/en/setting-tone.html#avoid-private-discussions

Having project-relevant *discussions* on-list doesn't preclude getting
someone's *attention* off-list.

I can't speak for the rest of the group, but as for myself, if you
would like to draft such a letter, I'm sure I will agree with its
contents.

-- 
Robert Kern

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth.
  -- Umberto Eco
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy steering group?

2011-04-30 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 This is just to follow up on a dead thread of mine a little while back.

 I was asking about letters for Clint Whaley's tenure case, from numpy,
 but I realized that I don't know who 'numpy' is :)

 Is there in fact a numpy steering group?    Who is best to write
 letters representing the 'numpy community'?

At http://scipy.org/Developer_Zone there's a list of people under a
big header steering committee. It seems to me that writing such a
letter representing the community is one of the purposes that
committee could serve.

Ralf
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