Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables + numexpr maintenance
2011/8/5, Gaetan de Menten gdemen...@gmail.com: Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 18:41, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: After more than 8 years since the first public version of PyTables (October 2002) and almost 4 years since the first release of PyTables Pro (July 2007), it is time for me to start new challenges in my career. Sorry for the slow reply, I was busy on other stuff for a while... I'm sorry to hear that. You were doing a amazing job. Thanks a lot for all the effort and time you put into it. Thanks Gaëtan :) I don't have enough time to help here, but I would like to offer my help for one of the satellite projects, namely numexpr. As far as I understand, you were the de facto maintainer for numexpr, so I fear that without you it will go unmaintained... And since I have a vested interest in keeping numexpr alive (at least until PyPy can be used as a replacement), I would like to be added to the list of maintainers for numexpr (preferably along with other people, as the other persons currently having commit rights seem inactive too). Sure. I remember you contributing some patches that were not trivial, so I've put you as a new owner of the project. Just remember than with more power, you should be more careful on what you do :) Mind that Mark Wiebe (mwwiebe) had been working with a completely revamped version of numexpr, mainly to adapt to the new iterator introduced in NumPy 1.6 series. His work is in newiter branch, and IMO, now that NumPy 1.6 has been out for a few months, I think it is a good time to release it. As the changes Mark done were very significant, I suggested this new version to be labeled 2.0, but it is up to you to decide now! Finally, I'll write Mark and propose him to become a new owner too. This way you could benefit of each other opinions ;) Thanks for wanting to become the next numexpr maintainer and good luck! -- Francesc Alted -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hi Francesc, thanks for developing and maintaining PyTables all this years, good luck to you and good luck to PyTables. I hope that the strengths of opensource help this project live on. Armando. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Antonio Valentino a_valent...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi list, Il 03/06/2011 15:12, Batuhan Osmanoglu ha scritto: Hi all, I would like to see Pytables continue, and I am glad to see that there are others interested. I think it would be a great idea to meet with everyone who is interested with Francesc's lead and we can discuss how the governance body functions. As Ben suggested, one way to do it may be to have a few people to revise and commit the bug-fixes and improvements from the community. And as Anthony pointed out meeting every few months is also a good idea I think. I just finished my Ph.D. and I don't really know how much time I will be able to spare, but I am using PyTables for storing and manipulating large geospatial datasets (think satellite images and numpy). So I have a natural interest in improving and maintaining PyTables in that respect. But there is a lot more that can be done with PyTables so I hope others can help with what they are interested in. I think it is a great idea to get together somehow with everyone involved, and see what can be done. Is the users list the right place to continue discussing this? I would like all users to be informed, but I don't want to upset anyone by sending lots of emails. ;) Take care, batu. Please guys, include me in the list of volunteers. I don't have too much time to dedicate to it (especially in this period) but I would like to contribute to keep PyTables alive. regards -- Antonio Valentino -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Ben Elliston b...@air.net.au wrote: Hi Francesc, Like others, I am very grateful for your work on PyTables. I think it would be wrong to assume that PyTables will die without the involvement of the original author. It is too useful, and there are too many people who depend on it. :-) With a couple of years of PyTabling ahead of me, I would of course like to see PyTables supported in some way. The beauty of free software is that I am not completely stranded, and I expect I will be able to fix bugs if I find them. At the very least, I think the project needs a small set of maintainers who can at least review and commit bug fixes submitted by others. Cheers, Ben -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users This is sad and happy news. Having used PyTables successfully in financial applications, I'm hopeful and confident that folks in the community will step up to continue maintaining the project. It'd be great to see PyTables / PyTablesPro on GitHub, joining much the rest of the scientific computing stack. I think a lot of people think (not just me) that HDF5/PyTables is an important part of the scientific computing puzzle. We'll have to figure out things like: how to build and distribute updated binaries for Windows. Christoph Gohlke is already doing this (for PyTables) for Win32 and Win64, so I think it's pretty doable. Best of luck in your new life chapter, Wes -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hi Francesc and all, I echo everyone's thanks for developing and maintaining PyTables for as long as you have. I think that PyTables is a valuable part of the collection of scientific computing tools for Python, so I am sure that those who need it will continue to maintain it. To that end, I vote for Francesc to nominate someone to place an initial, full, clone of the PyTables(Pro) repository on GitHub as a starting point. Then hopefully a group of maintainers will naturally arise out of those who have most at stake in keeping PyTables up-to-date. Cheers, Steven. On 3 Jun 2011, at 10:30, Wes McKinney wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Ben Elliston b...@air.net.au wrote: Hi Francesc, Like others, I am very grateful for your work on PyTables. I think it would be wrong to assume that PyTables will die without the involvement of the original author. It is too useful, and there are too many people who depend on it. :-) With a couple of years of PyTabling ahead of me, I would of course like to see PyTables supported in some way. The beauty of free software is that I am not completely stranded, and I expect I will be able to fix bugs if I find them. At the very least, I think the project needs a small set of maintainers who can at least review and commit bug fixes submitted by others. Cheers, Ben -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users This is sad and happy news. Having used PyTables successfully in financial applications, I'm hopeful and confident that folks in the community will step up to continue maintaining the project. It'd be great to see PyTables / PyTablesPro on GitHub, joining much the rest of the scientific computing stack. I think a lot of people think (not just me) that HDF5/PyTables is an important part of the scientific computing puzzle. We'll have to figure out things like: how to build and distribute updated binaries for Windows. Christoph Gohlke is already doing this (for PyTables) for Win32 and Win64, so I think it's pretty doable. Best of luck in your new life chapter, Wes -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users --- This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hi all, I would like to see Pytables continue, and I am glad to see that there are others interested. I think it would be a great idea to meet with everyone who is interested with Francesc's lead and we can discuss how the governance body functions. As Ben suggested, one way to do it may be to have a few people to revise and commit the bug-fixes and improvements from the community. And as Anthony pointed out meeting every few months is also a good idea I think. I just finished my Ph.D. and I don't really know how much time I will be able to spare, but I am using PyTables for storing and manipulating large geospatial datasets (think satellite images and numpy). So I have a natural interest in improving and maintaining PyTables in that respect. But there is a lot more that can be done with PyTables so I hope others can help with what they are interested in. I think it is a great idea to get together somehow with everyone involved, and see what can be done. Is the users list the right place to continue discussing this? I would like all users to be informed, but I don't want to upset anyone by sending lots of emails. ;) Take care, batu. Message: 3 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:52:26 -0500 From: Anthony Scopatz scop...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables To: Discussion list for PyTables pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: banlktikz-smlnfg0846f5rrrfw9vl84...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello All, Francesc, I'd like to reiterate everyone's thanks and best wishes. Your work here is truly appreciated. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: Hi Anthony and others, Thanks for your interest in keeping pytables alive. I've seen how you really tried to push pytables in some scenarios, and I really appreciate this :) Some other people have expressed interest in this endeavour too, but apparently nobody seems ready to put a lot of effort on it, which is understandable. I can only speak for myself, but I know that this came as sort of surprise. So I need to clear some other things off of my plate before I do independent intensive work ;). Given this, perhaps the best could be to setup a governance body. I think this makes a lot of sense. We can ensure that the governing team has semi-regular meetings (every 3 months?) and maybe gets sprints together occasionally as well. Spreading the workload that you have been doing on your own between several people would make everyone's lives easier. Probably you should round up everyone who has expressed interest and have them 'meet' one another. Batuhan, how do you feel about this? On the other hand, a decision should be taken on where the future maintenance of the code is going to take place. As I said before, I plan to maintain the pytables.org site for at least a year, so the SVN repository in pytables.org can be used, so I can add people with commit rights pretty easily. Or, somebody may want to create a new fork, and use new infrastructure (like github, gitorious, bitbucket or any other people is comfortable with). It is up to you. Yup this would probably be a decision for the new governance. Finally, I'll try to keep up with the messages on this list, and will help in the transition as much as my new responsibilities would allow. That would be excellent! I think that we'd end up deferring to your wisdom in a lot of cases. I have been trying to respond to the list in the past, but often times you have been faster than me! Be Well Anthony Thanks! Francesc -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Francesc, I want to thank you as well for your ongoing support with PyTables. It is a fantastic library. Anthony Batuhan - I would like to volunteer to help support PyTables with you. I'm a newbie to PyTables having used it via Wes McKinney's excellent pandas package for only about six months. However, I am happy to help where I can. Henry On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: Hello All, Francesc, I'd like to reiterate everyone's thanks and best wishes. Your work here is truly appreciated. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: Hi Anthony and others, Thanks for your interest in keeping pytables alive. I've seen how you really tried to push pytables in some scenarios, and I really appreciate this :) Some other people have expressed interest in this endeavour too, but apparently nobody seems ready to put a lot of effort on it, which is understandable. I can only speak for myself, but I know that this came as sort of surprise. So I need to clear some other things off of my plate before I do independent intensive work ;). Given this, perhaps the best could be to setup a governance body. I think this makes a lot of sense. We can ensure that the governing team has semi-regular meetings (every 3 months?) and maybe gets sprints together occasionally as well. Spreading the workload that you have been doing on your own between several people would make everyone's lives easier. Probably you should round up everyone who has expressed interest and have them 'meet' one another. Batuhan, how do you feel about this? On the other hand, a decision should be taken on where the future maintenance of the code is going to take place. As I said before, I plan to maintain the pytables.org site for at least a year, so the SVN repository in pytables.org can be used, so I can add people with commit rights pretty easily. Or, somebody may want to create a new fork, and use new infrastructure (like github, gitorious, bitbucket or any other people is comfortable with). It is up to you. Yup this would probably be a decision for the new governance. Finally, I'll try to keep up with the messages on this list, and will help in the transition as much as my new responsibilities would allow. That would be excellent! I think that we'd end up deferring to your wisdom in a lot of cases. I have been trying to respond to the list in the past, but often times you have been faster than me! Be Well Anthony Thanks! Francesc A Wednesday 01 June 2011 20:25:12 Anthony Scopatz escrigué: Hey Francesc, I am personally saddened to see you go... I use pytables all the time and have a vested interest in keeping the project going. It would be a major blow to loose pytables entirely I would be happy to do basic maintenance (bug fixes, responding to people on the list) but I wouldn't have a chance to do anything major until after my PhD is done. Probably ideal for me would be to share these duties with someone else who doesn't want to see the project end. Good luck with the new job, and all the best in the future! Be Well Anthony On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: A Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:34:57 Davide Cittaro escrigué: OMG! Good luck with the new job! On my side I've just started a pytables based project and I wonder if I should stop it or not... D Well, until a new, committed maintainer jumps into the arena, my personal advice is that you should avoid using PyTables for your new project. Sorry about this :-/ -- Francesc Alted --- --- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hi list, Il 03/06/2011 15:12, Batuhan Osmanoglu ha scritto: Hi all, I would like to see Pytables continue, and I am glad to see that there are others interested. I think it would be a great idea to meet with everyone who is interested with Francesc's lead and we can discuss how the governance body functions. As Ben suggested, one way to do it may be to have a few people to revise and commit the bug-fixes and improvements from the community. And as Anthony pointed out meeting every few months is also a good idea I think. I just finished my Ph.D. and I don't really know how much time I will be able to spare, but I am using PyTables for storing and manipulating large geospatial datasets (think satellite images and numpy). So I have a natural interest in improving and maintaining PyTables in that respect. But there is a lot more that can be done with PyTables so I hope others can help with what they are interested in. I think it is a great idea to get together somehow with everyone involved, and see what can be done. Is the users list the right place to continue discussing this? I would like all users to be informed, but I don't want to upset anyone by sending lots of emails. ;) Take care, batu. Please guys, include me in the list of volunteers. I don't have too much time to dedicate to it (especially in this period) but I would like to contribute to keep PyTables alive. regards -- Antonio Valentino -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hi Anthony and others, Thanks for your interest in keeping pytables alive. I've seen how you really tried to push pytables in some scenarios, and I really appreciate this :) Some other people have expressed interest in this endeavour too, but apparently nobody seems ready to put a lot of effort on it, which is understandable. Given this, perhaps the best could be to setup a governance body. For example, Josh Moore told me that Jenkins (a monitor for repeated jobs) experimented something similar (i.e. the main developer stopped his work), and the project is now being governed by a reduced body of people. You can see how they coordinates here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Governance+Meeting+Agenda I don't know if this solution would work effectively, but it is a possibility. On the other hand, a decision should be taken on where the future maintenance of the code is going to take place. As I said before, I plan to maintain the pytables.org site for at least a year, so the SVN repository in pytables.org can be used, so I can add people with commit rights pretty easily. Or, somebody may want to create a new fork, and use new infrastructure (like github, gitorious, bitbucket or any other people is comfortable with). It is up to you. Finally, I'll try to keep up with the messages on this list, and will help in the transition as much as my new responsibilities would allow. Thanks! Francesc A Wednesday 01 June 2011 20:25:12 Anthony Scopatz escrigué: Hey Francesc, I am personally saddened to see you go... I use pytables all the time and have a vested interest in keeping the project going. It would be a major blow to loose pytables entirely I would be happy to do basic maintenance (bug fixes, responding to people on the list) but I wouldn't have a chance to do anything major until after my PhD is done. Probably ideal for me would be to share these duties with someone else who doesn't want to see the project end. Good luck with the new job, and all the best in the future! Be Well Anthony On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: A Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:34:57 Davide Cittaro escrigué: OMG! Good luck with the new job! On my side I've just started a pytables based project and I wonder if I should stop it or not... D Well, until a new, committed maintainer jumps into the arena, my personal advice is that you should avoid using PyTables for your new project. Sorry about this :-/ -- Francesc Alted --- --- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Dear Francesc, just to say thank you very much for your work over the previous 8 years and the provision of PyTables to soo many people, and also thank you for your ongoing and dedicated support for PyTables users. We know of some of the projects that have made use of PyTables (which seem to include a number of PhD theses) but I expect there are others (probably more) that have not reported back that they are using PyTables. In any case: quite an achievement --- congratulations! With best wishes for the future, Hans -- Hans Fangohr School of Engineering Sciences University of Southampton Phone: +44 (0) 238059 8345 Email: fang...@soton.ac.uk http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hello Francesc, I recently started using Pytables; I was on my first project with it. And, I really liked the functionality it offered. I think you should be very proud of your accomplishment with Pytables. I am really sorry to see that you cannot develop it further. Thank you very much for creating it and getting it to where it is. Thank you also for helping out with our questions on the mailing list. I hope you do very well in your new job. Good luck. Bharat On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Hans Fangohr h.fang...@soton.ac.uk wrote: Dear Francesc, just to say thank you very much for your work over the previous 8 years and the provision of PyTables to soo many people, and also thank you for your ongoing and dedicated support for PyTables users. We know of some of the projects that have made use of PyTables (which seem to include a number of PhD theses) but I expect there are others (probably more) that have not reported back that they are using PyTables. In any case: quite an achievement --- congratulations! With best wishes for the future, Hans -- Hans Fangohr School of Engineering Sciences University of Southampton Phone: +44 (0) 238059 8345 Email: fang...@soton.ac.uk http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hello All, Francesc, I'd like to reiterate everyone's thanks and best wishes. Your work here is truly appreciated. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: Hi Anthony and others, Thanks for your interest in keeping pytables alive. I've seen how you really tried to push pytables in some scenarios, and I really appreciate this :) Some other people have expressed interest in this endeavour too, but apparently nobody seems ready to put a lot of effort on it, which is understandable. I can only speak for myself, but I know that this came as sort of surprise. So I need to clear some other things off of my plate before I do independent intensive work ;). Given this, perhaps the best could be to setup a governance body. I think this makes a lot of sense. We can ensure that the governing team has semi-regular meetings (every 3 months?) and maybe gets sprints together occasionally as well. Spreading the workload that you have been doing on your own between several people would make everyone's lives easier. Probably you should round up everyone who has expressed interest and have them 'meet' one another. Batuhan, how do you feel about this? On the other hand, a decision should be taken on where the future maintenance of the code is going to take place. As I said before, I plan to maintain the pytables.org site for at least a year, so the SVN repository in pytables.org can be used, so I can add people with commit rights pretty easily. Or, somebody may want to create a new fork, and use new infrastructure (like github, gitorious, bitbucket or any other people is comfortable with). It is up to you. Yup this would probably be a decision for the new governance. Finally, I'll try to keep up with the messages on this list, and will help in the transition as much as my new responsibilities would allow. That would be excellent! I think that we'd end up deferring to your wisdom in a lot of cases. I have been trying to respond to the list in the past, but often times you have been faster than me! Be Well Anthony Thanks! Francesc A Wednesday 01 June 2011 20:25:12 Anthony Scopatz escrigué: Hey Francesc, I am personally saddened to see you go... I use pytables all the time and have a vested interest in keeping the project going. It would be a major blow to loose pytables entirely I would be happy to do basic maintenance (bug fixes, responding to people on the list) but I wouldn't have a chance to do anything major until after my PhD is done. Probably ideal for me would be to share these duties with someone else who doesn't want to see the project end. Good luck with the new job, and all the best in the future! Be Well Anthony On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: A Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:34:57 Davide Cittaro escrigué: OMG! Good luck with the new job! On my side I've just started a pytables based project and I wonder if I should stop it or not... D Well, until a new, committed maintainer jumps into the arena, my personal advice is that you should avoid using PyTables for your new project. Sorry about this :-/ -- Francesc Alted --- --- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net
[Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Dear PyTables users, After more than 8 years since the first public version of PyTables (October 2002) and almost 4 years since the first release of PyTables Pro (July 2007), it is time for me to start new challenges in my career. The reason for this change is that I have found a new job and, unfortunately, I'll not have time for doing any further development, except for perhaps delivering a couple of additional maintenance releases during the year to come, and participating from time to time in the pytables-user list. In case anyone is willing to adopt PyTables and push it with more features, he would be absolutely welcome and I'll do my best to help him in this endeavour. Regarding PyTables Pro, I am still undecided, but I'm open to release it as open source (BSD-like) too. At any rate, I don't plan to sell PyTables Pro licenses anymore. Also, I'm committing myself to maintain the pytables.org web site for at least one additional year (up to May 2012), and I'd glad to help transferring it (or part of it) to anyone who wants to become a future maintainer. Finally, I would like to thank to all of you who have contributed with bug reports, patches, encouragements and, last but not least, monetary support. Without you the PyTables project would have not lasted too much (after all, 8 years of life is a quite important figure for a modest project like this :) Thank you! -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
A Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:34:57 Davide Cittaro escrigué: OMG! Good luck with the new job! On my side I've just started a pytables based project and I wonder if I should stop it or not... D Well, until a new, committed maintainer jumps into the arena, my personal advice is that you should avoid using PyTables for your new project. Sorry about this :-/ -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Hey Francesc, I am personally saddened to see you go... I use pytables all the time and have a vested interest in keeping the project going. It would be a major blow to loose pytables entirely I would be happy to do basic maintenance (bug fixes, responding to people on the list) but I wouldn't have a chance to do anything major until after my PhD is done. Probably ideal for me would be to share these duties with someone else who doesn't want to see the project end. Good luck with the new job, and all the best in the future! Be Well Anthony On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: A Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:34:57 Davide Cittaro escrigué: OMG! Good luck with the new job! On my side I've just started a pytables based project and I wonder if I should stop it or not... D Well, until a new, committed maintainer jumps into the arena, my personal advice is that you should avoid using PyTables for your new project. Sorry about this :-/ -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
Re: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables
Dear Francesc, I also used PyTables for one of my projects and I am sad to see you leave the project. On the other hand, it is obviously great news that you have a new job and I wish you best of luck with that. The decision about the fate of PyTables and PyTables Pro is of course up to you, but I would be very glad if you could keep the users involved in it as much as possible. If you decide to do so, may be a group could be formed that would consist of interested parties, from which a new set of developers could take on the responsibility of maintaining the code as much as their time permits. All in all, thanks for making PyTables available, which helped me with my Ph.D. Take care, batu. Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:41:58 +0200 From: Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org Subject: [Pytables-users] Francesc Alted ceasing activities with PyTables To: Discussion list for PyTables pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Announcemnt list for PyTables pytables-annou...@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 201106011841.58869.fal...@pytables.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear PyTables users, After more than 8 years since the first public version of PyTables (October 2002) and almost 4 years since the first release of PyTables Pro (July 2007), it is time for me to start new challenges in my career. The reason for this change is that I have found a new job and, unfortunately, I'll not have time for doing any further development, except for perhaps delivering a couple of additional maintenance releases during the year to come, and participating from time to time in the pytables-user list. In case anyone is willing to adopt PyTables and push it with more features, he would be absolutely welcome and I'll do my best to help him in this endeavour. Regarding PyTables Pro, I am still undecided, but I'm open to release it as open source (BSD-like) too. At any rate, I don't plan to sell PyTables Pro licenses anymore. Also, I'm committing myself to maintain the pytables.org web site for at least one additional year (up to May 2012), and I'd glad to help transferring it (or part of it) to anyone who wants to become a future maintainer. Finally, I would like to thank to all of you who have contributed with bug reports, patches, encouragements and, last but not least, monetary support. Without you the PyTables project would have not lasted too much (after all, 8 years of life is a quite important figure for a modest project like this :) Thank you! -- Francesc Alted -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev___ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
