Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Andras Deak
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:35 AM, Allan Haldane wrote: > On 02/07/2018 04:26 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I was thinking about things to do to simplify the NumPy development >> process. One thing that came to mind was our use of prefixes on commits, >> BUG, TST, etc. Those prefixes

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Allan Haldane
On 02/07/2018 04:26 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > Hi All, > > I was thinking about things to do to simplify the NumPy development > process. One thing that came to mind was our use of prefixes on commits, > BUG, TST, etc. Those prefixes were originally introduced by David > Cournapeau when he was

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Stefan van der Walt
On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:26:37 -0700, Charles R Harris wrote: > I was thinking about things to do to simplify the NumPy development > process. One thing that came to mind was our use of prefixes on commits, > BUG, TST, etc. Those prefixes were originally introduced by David > Cournapeau when he was m

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Andrew Nelson
Other factors hindering new contributors: 1) Being unfamiliar with git. e.g. knowing that you have to fork numpy first, then clone from your fork, then create a feature branch. That's just the """straightforward bit""". It's hell the first time you have to rebase something/correct commit messages/

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Allan, Daniel
I think that makes sense. Incidentally, I had imitated numpy's abbreviated prefixes on various other projects until it was recently pointed out to me that abbreviations, especially more cryptic ones like "ENH", "REF", and "MNT", are a particularly tricky "hoop" to jump through for non-native spe

[Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Charles R Harris
Hi All, I was thinking about things to do to simplify the NumPy development process. One thing that came to mind was our use of prefixes on commits, BUG, TST, etc. Those prefixes were originally introduced by David Cournapeau when he was managing releases in order help him track commits that might