On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:41 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < > chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >> > Obviously the string dtype proposal in the roadmap is only a sketch at >> this point :). >> > >> > I do think that options listed currently (encoded strings with >> fixed-width storage and variable length strings) cover the breadth of >> proposals from last time. We may not want to implement all of them in >> NumPy, but I think we can agree that there are use cases for all them, even >> if only as external dtypes? >> >> Maybe :-) — but I totally agree that more complete handling of strings >> should be on the roadmap. >> >> > Would it help to add "and/or" after the first bullet? Mostly I care >> about having like to have "improve string dtypes" in some form on the >> roadmap, and thought it would be helpful to list the concrete proposals >> that I recall. >> >> Sure, something like and/or that makes it clear that the details are >> yet to be determined would be great. >> >> > The actual design choices (especially if we proposal to change any >> default behavior) will certainly need a NEP. >> > > +1 the roadmap just contains topics/directions of interest. It's not the > place for any technical decisions. > > Related note: we are now using the "wish list" issue label for anything > that is too small to put on a roadmap or write a NEP for. Right now there's > a lot of random stuff in that label though ([1]), so I think we have to > clean that up. Examples of good wish list items that are on there now: > > - Document API generation with setup.py, genapi.py, etc. (gh-9203) > - Feature request: signal broadcasting is OK over core dimension (gh-8811) > - Multidimensional fftfreq/rfftfreq (gh-9094) > > I plan to go through and remove the label from issues that don't fit in > the next couple of days. > This is done now. Reduced from 36 to 10 issues. Would be good if we could try for a while to use this label consistently for tasks/enhancements that fall below the "put on the roadmap" threshold but are larger than, e.g., adding a keyword to one function. Cheers, Ralf > [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is% > 3Aissue+label%3A%2223+-+Wish+List%22 > >
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