Mailman 3 October 2017 - SciPy-Dev

Code of conduct: 12 Oct blog featured on planet scipy
by . kt 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hello, I don't usually post to this list, but I check the blogs at planet.scipy.org regularly. They generally have useful, interesting and appropriate content. The 12 October 2017 post by Philip Herron seems to be a glaring exception. By the post's title -- something about "sex toys for men" -- the material seems to be inappropriate for a scientific python blog aggregator. (I didn't read the post, it could be satire or something -- but a blog post with that title should never appear on planet.scipy.org.) It also seems to be the type of thing that could give scientific python a bad name, on a high visibility website, a link to which is on the scipy.org main page. Perhaps a good time to test the proposed code of conduct. Meanwhile, perhaps someone who can edit planet.scipy.org should remove the post -- sooner, rather than later. Thanks, kmtac

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Hide real name on mail list
by Ant 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Hi, I have recently sent an email to the scipy-user mailing list, and my real name was displayed, even if I made sure to set my username to something else during the subscription process. I would really like this to be changed; my real name to be removed and the made-up username to be shown instead (or nothing!). I find it confusing to choose a username that is not displayed anywhere, displaying instead my real name taken from the email account. I would really appreciate it if you could remove my name from the previous post. Thank you

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Re: [SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] Sustainability
by Pauli Virtanen 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

to, 2017-10-05 kello 00:08 +0200, Ilhan Polat kirjoitti: [clip] > 2. Feature completeness of basic modules. I think those judgments can be subjective, but it is true many things have been organically grown, and this becomes even more so as the number of contributors grows (fielding other people's PRs already takes a lot of time). I think most people send something that they need there and then, and it is not possible to tell them to go do something else instead. So even if there are many contributors, it's less clear how available they are for implementing "the plan". Regardless, I would recommend anyone who knows something obvious is missing that obviously should be included, to send a PR adding it to the roadmap: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.rst.txt This document has not really been updated significantly since the single brainstorm in a Scipy conference many years ago, and we did not go through the contents then in great detail. Pauli

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Re: [SciPy-Dev] support for solving integer programming problems
by Jeffrey Manville 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

I would also be interested in contributing to this. I have some classwork experience with IP and at the least would enjoy contributing more testing. Jeff >I am. > >On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Matt Haberland <haberland(a)ucla.edu> wrote: > >> Yes. I wrote the new interior point method for linprog because the >> existing simplex implementation was having trouble with relaxed LPs from my >> (branch and bound) binary integer LP solver. The BILP solver is basically >> ready for a PR, but some suggested that I should shoot for a full mixed >> integer LP solver before submitting. I did plan to work on this. You >> interested, Phillip? >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> On Sep 29, 2017 8:32 PM, "Phillip Feldman" <phillip.m.feldman(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I'm wondering whether anyone has been thinking of adding capability to >> `scipy.optimize` for solving low-dimensionality integer programming >> problems. In particular, I'm thinking of such methods as local search or >> tabu search. >> >> >> Phillip

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support for solving integer programming problems
by Phillip Feldman 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

I'm wondering whether anyone has been thinking of adding capability to `scipy.optimize` for solving low-dimensionality integer programming problems. In particular, I'm thinking of such methods as local search or tabu search. Phillip

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the demise of SciPy Central
by Ralf Gommers 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hi all, SciPy Central has been down for weeks, and barely anyone has noticed (2 bug reports). Almost no new content has been created the last year, and the use cases it tried to address are now covered pretty well by StackOverflow and Github/gists. A bit more discussion with Surya and Pauli, who have done most of the maintenance for the site the last couple of years, happened on https://github.com/scipy/SciPyCentral/issues/207. In https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/226 I've removed links to it from scipy.org. I propose we go ahead and merge that, and shut down the site completely. This is in no way a judgement of the work especially Surya put in during and after his GSoC - more an acknowledgement that times have changed. And maybe that we should collectively try to stay away from sysadmin duties as much as possible (scipy.org, mailman, etc. also have not been fun). Cheers, Ralf

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