On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:23 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi there,
I agreed to help organising NumPy sprints during the scipy 2013 conference in Austin.
As some of you may know, Stéfan and me will present a tutorial on NumPy C code, so if we do our job correctly, we should have a few new people ready to help out during the sprints.
It would be good to: - have some focus topics for improvements - know who is going to be there at the sprint to work on things and/or help newcomers
Things I'd like to work on myself is looking into splitting things from multiarray, think about a better internal API for dtype registration/hooks (with the goal to remove any date dtype hardcoding in both multiarray and ufunc machinery), but I am sure others have more interesting ideas :)
I'd like to get a 1.8 beta out or at least get to the point where we can make that leap. There is a lot of new stuff that needs to be tested, PR's to go through, and I have a suspicion that a memory allocation error might have crept in somewhere. Chuck