On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:27 AM, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
about improvements to the design and extensions. We wanted to move the 2 or 3 way mailing threads to a public forum, but I felt, that we have more freedom in producing long, "boring" mail threads on a dedicated list than on the general purpose scipy lists.
The second reason was, that we started to discuss pandas, which looks like a good package for data handling, used mainly in finance, and which will have its first release in the near future. I'm also keeping an eye on some other packages that might become useful for econometrics (also BSD or compatible).
FWIW, I personally like the fact that other 'scipy ecosystem' packages can and are discussed here, since it means I learn a lot without having to track yet another separate mailing list. I really appreciate your tact and courtesy in trying to not 'pollute' the scipy lists with material that you feel may be somewhat off-topic. But I think that, given how all of us have become pretty good at just ignoring threads we aren't keeping track of directly, in general you would not find too much push-back from this list. So at least from me, +1 for you guys keeping your discussions here, where I might actually learn something :) Best regards, f