I have the credentials to the pypi listing, and I uploaded the one dev release 
we made. I also am an owner of the github.com/pythonnet organization, but I 
think there are three other owners as well.

 

I have moved to other projects in my work, so I won’t be making any 
contributions to this project going forward. I’d obviously be happy to hand 
over the pypi credentials and anything else to whoever steps up on this project.

 

Best,

David

 

From: PythonDotNet 
[mailto:pythondotnet-bounces+anthoff=berkeley....@python.org] On Behalf Of 
Howard Mansell
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 7:01 AM
To: pythondotnet@python.org
Subject: Re: [Python.NET] surveying the landscape ...

 

Hi All

 

Would any of the past contributors be willing and able to work on the project 
more actively if we at BlueMountain funded the development?  We don’t have 
pre-existing deep technical knowledge of the project, so contributing directly 
is more difficult for us.   

 

Feel free to email me directly if you are interested.

 

(BTW, Brett – I agree having more active support from PVTS guys would be 
useful.  Not sure whether they are able to contribute, though)

 

Thanks

Howard

 

 

From: PythonDotNet [ <mailto:pythondotnet-bounces+aklein=bmcm....@python.org> 
mailto:pythondotnet-bounces+aklein=bmcm....@python.org] On Behalf Of Tony 
Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 5:17 AM
To: A list for users and developers of Python for .NET
Subject: Re: [Python.NET] surveying the landscape ...

 

Hi Adam,

from my point of view it'd be great to have more people involved. I've been 
doing some development, but more or less out of necessity (I enjoy working on 
the project when I can, but don't really have the time to commit to it much 
more than I have been unfortunately).

 

To give you some background around why there's the renshawbay repo as well as 
the main repo; Initially I created the renshawbay repo as there were various 
changes I needed to make to the project while it was hosted in sourceforge, and 
for me it was easier to manage that in github. I added Python 3 support, and 
later some stuff around subclassing .net classes in Python. It was then decided 
to move the project to github, so we created the pythonnet repo directly from 
the sourceforge repo rather than fork the renshawbay repo. The thinking back 
then was that we should do a 2.0 release based off that fork, and then once 
that was stable look at merging in the Python 3 work from the renshawbay fork.

 

So, to answer your first question - pythonnet/pythonnet is the official repo, 
but most new development (new features etc) has taken place on the 
renshawbay/pythonnet fork in the python3 branch (which maintains support for 
Python 2).

 

There's no official roadmap that I'm aware of. There are some issues and 
milestones in the github repo, but AFAIK no one is actively working on those 
right now. There are only a couple of issues remaining for the 2.0 release 
however.

 

Pull requests to the official repo are reviewed and merged by the project 
owners (of which I'm one). So far those have been bug fixes or changes 
necessary for the 2.0 release. I keep the renshawbay fork up to date with any 
commits to the main repo.

 

For what it's worth, here's what I'm aware of that needs attention:

    - Finalizing and releasing to PyPI the 2.0 release for Python 2.x only

    - Testing and getting the renshawbay python3 branch working on non-windows 
platforms (the linux build currently has problems, and I've not tested any mac 
builds)

    - Merging the renshawbay python3 branch into the main pythonnet fork

    - Updating the docs

 

If you're able to help at all that would be much appreciated.

 

Best regards,

Tony

 

 

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:08 AM Tribble, Brett <btrib...@ea.com 
<mailto:btrib...@ea.com> > wrote:

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/> 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: <mailto:pythondotnet-bounces%2Bbtribble> 
pythondotnet-bounces+btribble= <mailto:ea....@python.org> 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  <http://Python.NET> 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> 
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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