On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

It is time to start looking forward to the 1.9.0 release. Currently there are some 76 open PRs and they keep rolling in, which is good,

To make the PR list a bit more manageable, I would suggest to start closing the ones which are not in a state to get merged and haven't seen activity by the author for >3 months. And add in the dev guide that this is normal policy and that authors are free to reopen the PR when they continue working on it.

but we need to decide on what is important for 1.9 and what can be put off to 1.10 because otherwise we will never finish. The datetime problems and some of the deprecations/futurewarnings that were present in 1.8 need to be dealt with. The nanmedian stuff will make a nice addition to the nan functions. Apart from those, if you have a PR or fix that you think needs to be in 1.9, please make it known.

The boolean subtract and ellipsis indexing deprecations probably need reconsidering. I get 78 test errors right now because of those if I test scipy master against numpy master.

Ralf