On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

It's been a little over 6 months since the release of 1.6.0 and the NA debate has quieted down, so I'd like to ask your opinion on the timing of 1.7.0. It looks to me like we have a healthy amount of bug fixes and small improvements, plus three larger chucks of work:

- datetime
- NA
- Bento support

My impression is that both datetime and NA are releasable, but should be labeled "tech preview" or something similar, because they may still see significant changes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

There's still some maintenance work to do and pull requests to merge, but a beta release by Christmas should be feasible.

To be a bit more detailed here, these are the most significant pull requests / patches that I think can be merged with a limited amount of work:
meshgrid enhancements: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/966
sample_from function: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/151
loadtable function: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/143

Other maintenance things:
- un-deprecate putmask
- clean up causes of "DType strings 'O4' and 'O8' are deprecated..."
- fix failing einsum and polyfit tests
- update release notes

Cheers,
Ralf

What do you all think?

Cheers,
Ralf