Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-17 Thread Francesc Alted
On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:20 AM, John Hunter wrote: clip And he has proven his ability to lead when *almost everyone* was against him. At the height of the Numeric/numarray split, and I was deeply involved in this as the mpl author because we had a numerix compatibility layer to allow users to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-17 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi Ben, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Thursday, February 16, 2012, John Hunter wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: This has not been an encouraging

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Anton Letnes
An example I really like is LibreOffice's get involved page. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/ Producing something similar for NumPy will take some work, but I believe it's needed. Speaking as someone who has contributed to numpy in a microscopic fashion, I agree completely. I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when agreement can't be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls. (This is simply a consequence that they are the only ones who can credibly threaten to fork the project.) Interesting point. I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Joe Harrington wrote: Of course, balancing all of this (and our security blanket) is the possibility of someone splitting the code if they don't like how Continuum runs things. Perry, you've done that yourself to this code's predecessor, so you know the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Francesc Alted
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when agreement can't be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls. (This is simply a consequence that they are the only ones who can credibly

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/16/12 6:23 AM, Francesc Alted wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when agreement can't be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls. (This is simply a consequence that they

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver
If I can chime in as a newcomer on this list: I don't think a conflict of interest is at all likely, but I can see the point of those saying that it's worth thinking about this while everything is going well. If any tension does arise, it will be all but impossible to decide on a fair governance

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Sinclair
On 16 February 2012 15:08, Thomas Kluyver tak...@gmail.com wrote: It strikes me that the effort everyone's put into this thread could have by now designed some way to resolve disputes. ;-) This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this thread, but I can't help myself. I propose

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/16/12 8:06 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: On 16 February 2012 15:08, Thomas Kluyvertak...@gmail.com wrote: It strikes me that the effort everyone's put into this thread could have by now designed some way to resolve disputes. ;-) This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Wang
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: The question is more about what can possibly be done about it. To really shift power, my hunch is that the only practical way would be to, like Mark said, make sure there are very active non-Continuum-employed developers. But perhaps I'm

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Bruce Southey
On 02/16/2012 08:06 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: On 16 February 2012 15:08, Thomas Kluyvertak...@gmail.com wrote: It strikes me that the effort everyone's put into this thread could have by now designed some way to resolve disputes. ;-) This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that we set up a system to select non-developers along on a board that would have discussions in order to veto pull requests, I don't know

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Vaught
On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting people putting in little bits of time to a small number of designated people putting in lots of time. That's not what Travis, or anyone else, proposed. Travis

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Inati, Souheil (NIH/NIMH) [E]  As great and trustworthy as Travis is, there is a very real potential for conflict of interest here. He is going to be leading an organization to raise and distribute funding and at the same time leading a commercial for profit

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett Personally, I would say that making the founder of a company, which is working to make money from Numpy, the only decision maker on numpy - is - scary. not to me: -- power always goes to those that actually write the code -- as far as I can

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that we set up a system to select non-developers along on a board

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: If non-contributing users came along on the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:09 AM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted franc...@continuum.io wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when agreement can't be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted franc...@continuum.io wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: But surely - surely - the best thing to do here is to formulate something that might be acceptable, and for everyone to say what they think the problems would be.  Do you agree? Absolutely -- but just like anything

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: Why not the NA discussion?  Would we really want to have that happen again? Note that it still isn't fully resolved and progress still needs to be made (I think the last thread did an excellent job of fleshing out the ideas,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted franc...@continuum.io wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught tra...@vaught.net wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting people putting in little bits of time to a small number of designated people putting in lots of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught tra...@vaught.net wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting people putting in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught tra...@vaught.net wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting people putting in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught tra...@vaught.net wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: Travis's

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught tra...@vaught.net

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
This has been a clarifying discussion for some people. I'm glad people are speaking up. I believe in the value of consensus and the value of users opinions.I want to make sure that people who use NumPy and haven't yet learned how to contribute, feel like they have a voice. I have

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Just for my own sake, can I clarify what you are saying here? On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: I'm not a big fan of design-by-committee as I haven't seen it be very successful in creating new technologies.   It is pretty good at enforcing the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
Matthew, What you should take from my post is that I appreciate your concern for the future of the NumPy project, and am grateful that you have an eye to the sort of things that can go wrong --- it will help ensure they don't go wrong. But, I personally don't agree that it is necessary to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: Matthew, What you should take from my post is that I appreciate your concern for the future of the NumPy project, and am grateful that you have an eye to the sort of things that can go wrong --- it will help

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 2012-02-16, at 1:28 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: I think this is a good point, which is why the idea of a long term release is appealing. That release should be stodgy and safe, while the ongoing development can be much more radical in making changes. I sort of thought this *was* the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. Striving for consensus does not mean that a minority automatically gets veto rights. 'Striving' for

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. I disagree. Failure to reach consensus does not imply lack of striving. Hey Alan, thanks for your

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi John, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:20 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. I disagree. Failure to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, February 16, 2012, John Hunter wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'alan.is...@gmail.com'); wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Thursday, February 16, 2012, John Hunter wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: This has not been an encouraging episode in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Sinclair
On 16 February 2012 17:31, Bruce Southey bsout...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/16/2012 08:06 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this thread, but I can't help myself. I propose the following (tongue-in-cheek) patch against the current numpy master

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-15 Thread Pierre Haessig
Le 15/02/2012 04:07, Bruce Southey a écrit : The one thing that gets over looked here is that there is a huge diversity of users with very different skill levels. But very few people have an understanding of the core code. (In fact the other thread about type-casting suggests that it is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 2/14/2012 10:07 PM, Bruce Southey wrote: The one thing that gets over looked here is that there is a huge diversity of users with very different skill levels. But very few people have an understanding of the core code. (In fact the other thread about type-casting suggests that it is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/14/2012 10:07 PM, Bruce Southey wrote: The one thing that gets over looked here is that there is a huge diversity of users with very different skill levels. But very few people have an understanding of the core

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Inati, Souheil (NIH/NIMH) [E]
Hello, From: Matthew Brett [matthew.br...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:50 PM To: Discussion of Numerical Python Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Alan G Isaac alan.is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
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

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Firing
On 02/15/2012 08:50 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Alan G Isaacalan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/14/2012 10:07 PM, Bruce Southey wrote: The one thing that gets over looked here is that there is a huge diversity of users with very different skill levels. But

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 2/15/2012 2:46 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: I think it is only fair that the group occasionally pings this mailing-list for important progress reports. No offense intended, but that sounds like an unfunded mandate. More useful would be an offer to liaison between the two. Cheers, Alan

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Thanks for these interesting and specific questions. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: On 02/15/2012 08:50 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Alan G Isaacalan.is...@gmail.com  wrote: On 2/14/2012 10:07 PM, Bruce Southey

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 2/15/2012 2:46 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: The NA discussion is the perfect example where a governance structure would help resolve disputes. How? I'm not seeing it. Who would have behaved differently and why? Alan ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: Can you provide an example where a more formal governance structure for NumPy would have meant more or better code development? (Please do not

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/15/2012 2:46 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: The NA discussion is the perfect example where a governance structure would help resolve disputes. How? I'm not seeing it. Who would have behaved differently and why?

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
My analysis is fundamentally different than Matthew and Benjamin's for a few reasons. 1. The problem has been miscast. The economic interests of the developers *always* has had an apparent conflict with the economic interests of the users: users want developers to work more on the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Wiebe
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: Can you provide an example where a more formal

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: [...] My 2 cents. I think you put too much faith in formal systems. There are plenty of examples of formal governance that fail miserably. In the end it depends on the people and their willingness to continue cooperating. Formal governance

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Charles R Harris
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Mark Wiebe mwwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan G Isaac

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mark Wiebe mwwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan G Isaac

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: My analysis is fundamentally different than Matthew and Benjamin's for a few reasons. 1. The problem has been miscast.    The economic interests of the developers *always*    has had an apparent conflict with the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: My analysis is fundamentally different than Matthew and Benjamin's for a few reasons. 1. The problem has been miscast.    The

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread T J
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: for the core developers. The right way to produce a governance structure is to make concrete proposals and show how these proposals are in the interest of the *developers* (as well as of the users). At this point,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:08 PM, T J tjhn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.comwrote: for the core developers. The right way to produce a governance structure is to make concrete proposals and show how these proposals are in the interest of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Wiebe
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mark Wiebe mwwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Wang
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: Honestly - as I was saying to Alan and indirectly to Ben - any formal model - at all - is preferable to the current situation. Personally, I would say that making the founder of a company, which is working to make money from Numpy, the only

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Peter Wang pw...@streamitive.com wrote: On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: Honestly - as I was saying to Alan and indirectly to Ben - any formal model - at all - is preferable to the current situation. Personally, I would say that making

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Bryan Van de Ven
On 2/15/12 3:25 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: 4) It is possible for Continuum to want features that are good for Continuum, but bad for the code-base in general. For example, Continuum may have some product that requires a particular arcane feature in numpy. Through these mechanisms, Numpy can

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Joe Harrington
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Perry Greenfield pe...@stsci.edu wrote: On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: [...] My 2 cents. [...] I am both elated and concerned. Since it's obvious what there is to be elated about, this post has a concerned tone. But overall, I think

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com mailto:matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mark Wiebe mwwi...@gmail.com mailto:mwwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com mailto:matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:     Hi,     On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mark

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com mailto:matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote:     Hi,     On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Wiebe
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Mark Wiebe mwwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: There certainly is governance now, it's just informal. It's a combination of how the design discussions are carried out, how pull requests occur, and who has

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: There certainly is governance now, it's just informal. It's a combination of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: There

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: There certainly is governance now, it's just informal. It's a combination of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM,  josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Southey
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:57 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com mailto:matthew.br...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On 02/15/2012 05:02 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: There certainly is governance now, it's just informal. It's a combination of how the design discussions are

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 05:02 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no  wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: There certainly is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-15 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: Your points are well taken.   However, my point is that this has been discussed on an open mailing list.   Things weren't *as* open as they could have been, perhaps, in terms of board selection.  But, there was

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Mark Wiebe mwwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Peter Wang pw...@streamitive.com wrote: On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: Honestly - as I was saying to Alan and indirectly to Ben - any formal model - at all - is preferable to the current situation. Personally, I would say that making the

[Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: Hi Travis, It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. I am slightly confused

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would like to be part of those discussions. Let me know if you would like more information about that.John Hunter, Fernando Perez, me, Perry Greenfield, and Jarrod Millman are the initial board of the Foundation.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would like to be part of those discussions.   Let me know if you would like more information about that.    John Hunter, Fernando Perez, me,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that list who was on the other one. I apologize if anyone felt left out. That is not my intention. My point is that there are two ways go to about this

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would like to be part of those discussions. Let me know if you

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that list who was on the other one.      I apologize if anyone felt left out.   That is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
I have to agree with Mathew here, to a point. There has been discussions of these groups before, but I don't recall any announcement of this group. Of course, now that it has been announced, maybe a link to it should be prominent on the numpy/scipy pages(maybe others?). It should also

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
Your points are well taken. However, my point is that this has been discussed on an open mailing list. Things weren't *as* open as they could have been, perhaps, in terms of board selection. But, there was opportunity for people to provide input. I am on the numpy, scipy,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/14/12 7:17 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: * Fund Open Source Projects in Science (currently NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and Matplotlib are first-tier with a whole host of second-tier projects that could received funding) * through grants So, for example, would the Foundation

[Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: I have to agree with Mathew here, to a point. There has been discussions of these groups before, but I don't recall any announcement of this group. Of course, now that it has been announced, maybe a link to it should be

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update - was: Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Bruce Southey
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant tra...@continuum.io wrote: When we selected the name NumFOCUS just a few weeks ago, we created the list for numfocus and then I signed everyone up for that