Adam, I’m ecstatic that there’s a player out there who is making good use of 
Python.net, and who would like to help contribute. Organizational and 
logistical issues aside, I’m all for anything you can throw at the project! 
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Brian Lloyd has largely yielded 
this project to Tony and the community. Based on Brian and  Tony’s past posts, 
I’m fairly sure they’ll welcome any and all contributions to the project.

It may sound sacrilegious to some, but I would love to see the PTVS 
(https://pytools.codeplex.com/) folks get involved with the project. They’re 
turning out a solid product, and this fits solidly in with what Microsoft is 
trying to do with PTVS, .NET Core, Azure etc.


From: PythonDotNet [mailto:pythondotnet-bounces+btribble=ea....@python.org] On 
Behalf Of Brad Friedman
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 2:36 PM
To: A list for users and developers of Python for .NET
Subject: Re: [Python.NET] surveying the landscape ...

I'll chime in and say the lack of these kinds of legitimate "stake-holder" 
systems and responsibilities has forced me to turn away from depending my work 
on this project. I still keep up on it in hopes that it will turn around.  If a 
legitimate player were to step up and contribute to a responsible, active and 
stable future for the project, I'd likely reconsider my stance and begin active 
support again. It's hard to justify putting much into it as one guy with 
limited resources.  It needs full multi-platform release and development 
support both as a python module and a .net embedding toolkit, both for Python 
2.x and 3.x.  That's a lot of work to commit to getting set right and 
maintaining.

On Jun 15, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Adam Klein 
<akl...@bluemountaincapital.com<mailto:akl...@bluemountaincapital.com>> wrote:
Hello all,

We are using Python.NET<http://Python.NET> at BlueMountain to interface between 
our large .NET code base and the cpython ecosystem for interactive, exploratory 
computing. By way of background, I was a major contributor to the pandas 
library for a time; my firm is behind the Deedle library 
(https://github.com/BlueMountainCapital/Deedle).
To state the obvious, the project has proven hugely valuable. BlueMountain has 
an interest in making sure the library doesn’t languish. To that end, we’re 
interested in contributing to the project in terms of manpower and possibly 
funding development. I’d like to get a better sense of a few things:

- is there a BDFL … is Brian Lloyd still active; or is Tony Roberts steering 
the ship (being the top code contributor recently on github?) It looks like 
python 3.x integration and more recent work is happening on on 
renshawbay/pythonnet? Is pythonnet/pythonnet still the official repo?
- who manages releases to PyPI?
- is this PythonDotNet mailing list the appropriate clearinghouse for all 
discussions related to the project?
- are there other institutions that are public users of this project?
- is there an official vision or roadmap for future releases?

I see that python 3.x support looks like it’s happening on renshawbay/pythonnet 
(awesome). For other wish-list items or proposed contributions, is it best to 
start opening issues on the pythonnet/pythonnet github site? How are pull 
requests managed?

I’m also wondering if there’s any collective / documented knowledge about the 
inherent limitations and pitfalls of the library and/or where development 
resources are needed?

Best,
  Adam



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