<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Andrew Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andyfaff@gmail.com" target="_blank">andyfaff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Scott Sievert and I have put a lot of work into preparing a draft of the PEP for class based scalar minimizers:<div><br><div><a href="https://github.com/andyfaff/scipy/blob/a52bb4f9029389da3ab072c92c609d71ed6943c6/PEP/1-Optimizer.rst" target="_blank">https://github.com/andyfaff/<wbr>scipy/blob/<wbr>a52bb4f9029389da3ab072c92c609d<wbr>71ed6943c6/PEP/1-Optimizer.rst</a><br></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">where we've tried to address comments already made in this thread, and from the WIP github PR. Scott and I look forward to hearing any comments/concerns/feedback about the proposal. We can field any questions and address them in an updated PEP, as well as on here.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Andrew.</div></font></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">p.s. Ralf/Pauli, could we add the PEP to a scipy/PEP, or scipy/scipep, repo? How should we discuss such this, and any further PEP? Should we have a scipep process, or shall we keep things simple?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd suggest a separate repo, and no custom process but rather just follow what is done for Python Enhancement Proposals - discussion of major things on this list, more detailed things on a PR on that new repo.<br><br></div><div>Unless there's other opinions, I can create the repo. There's also <a href="https://github.com/numpy/neps">https://github.com/numpy/neps</a> for which build infrastructure is in progress (I expect/hope), so we should be able to steal that soon. So for now just open a PR on the new empty repo I'd say.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Your proposal looks quite comprehensive and well written. I would suggest following the structure of PEPs a little more closely (<a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#what-belongs-in-a-successful-pep">https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#what-belongs-in-a-successful-pep</a>), e.g. add the metadata and copyright bits, and use "motivation" and "rationale" as section headers for some of the content that you have.<br><br></div><div>Ralf<br><br></div></div></div></div>