On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I was surprised today to notice that Mark's NA mask support appears to have been merged into numpy master and is described in the draft release notes[1]. My surprise is because merging it to mainline without any discussion on the list seems to contradict what what Travis wrote in July, that it was being developed as an experiment and explicitly *not* intended to be merged without further discussion:
"Basically, because there is not consensus and in fact a strong and reasonable opposition to specific points, Mark's NEP as proposed cannot be accepted in its entirety right now. However, I believe an implementation of his NEP is useful and will be instructive in resolving the issues and so I have instructed him to spend Enthought time on the implementation. Any changes that need to be made to the API before it is accepted into a released form of NumPy can still be made even after most of the implementation is completed as far as I understand it."[2]
Can anyone explain what the plan is here? Is the idea to continue the discussion and rework the API while it is in master, delaying the next release for as long as it takes to achieve consensus? Or is there some mysterious git thing going on where "master" is actually an experimental branch and the real mainline development is happening somewhere else? Or something else I'm not thinking of? Please help me understand.
No, it's in and has been for a while. You should spend some time with it and make specific suggestion for improvement. Chuck