Hello everyone, Over the past months (I hoped it would be weeks but instead it took months) I have been trying to revamp the processes through which we manage mlpack, since up to this point it's really been pretty ad-hoc. For instance, we seem to release whenever I'm able to, but the release effort is huge and so... there has not been a release in a while. :)
The new website should do a lot to assist with the release process, since that was one of the big bottlenecks. If you're interested in taking a look, see https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack.org/pull/6 and please do feel free to comment. In any case, mlpack has grown enough that one person can no longer keep up with quite everything that is going on. So I thought a useful way forward here is that we can get together and meet and plot out a roadmap to the next release. I thought also this might be really nice to do as a video meeting, so we can see each other and talk to each other and get to know each other a little better. :) (Of course, if that doesn't work, we can always do an IRC meeting too.) It seems reasonable to make these kind of meetings regular; perhaps maybe once a month or twice a month. We can keep them relatively quick and discuss the state of current projects, what should go into or stay out of upcoming releases, and longer-term goals and directions that each of us have. So, for now, I mostly wanted to take a straw poll to see what maintainers and contributors think. Good idea / bad idea? If enough of us think it's a reasonable idea to do, then we can start figuring out a time with a whenisgood or something. We're globally distributed, so the timezones may be a little hard (actually the only continent we're missing for contributors is Antarctica, so if anyone knows someone there... see if you can get them to make a grammar fix or something). But we can take notes during the meeting to share with anyone who didn't make it. Thanks, and have a great weekend! Ryan -- Ryan Curtin | "Weeee!" [email protected] | - Bobby _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list [email protected] http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
