On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:51 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Sure, I am fine doing this in a branch post 1.8.x, I am not in a hurry.

> 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.

Will you be there at the conference ?

Yes. I'm not very good at sprinting though. I prefer to amble with a big screen, nice keyboard, and a cup of coffee ;)

Chuck

Oh, I am sure we could get you set up with a projector screen and a nice bluetooth keyboard... Now, I think you just hit on something with the coffee.  I don't recall previous sprints having coffee available.