On Sun, Jul 4, 2021, at 14:46, Ralf Gommers wrote:

I'd like to make a proposal to use some project funds to make faster progress on moving to a new build system and improving our CI timeout issues.

Thank you for writing this proposal. I think this will be of great benefit, not only to SciPy but also to NumPy and many other projects in the ecosystem. It is wise to prepare in advance for the distutils deprecation.

Because this is the first such proposal, let me first deal with the meta issue of _how_ to deal with this. At the start of the year I co-wrote NEP 48 (https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0048-spending-project-funds.html) to have a framework for NumPy for spending project funds. I'd like to follow that NEP also for SciPy. So I'll make the proposal here, in accordance with that NEP, and then the other thing is to figure out where to put it up as a PR (or wiki page, or ...). For that my proposal is: create a new repo called something like `project-mgmt`, where we can put such proposals as well as meeting minutes, presentations, and other content. And have a single summary page in Markdown format with a list of all proposals made, linking out to the full proposals.

It would be great to have all these in one location. We can figure out the exact mechanism later, but it would be helpful to have the documents link to relevant discussion (a GitHub Discussion/PR/Issue would be better than wiki page, e.g.; but a mailing list link would suffice too).

I'd like to use 75% of the funds to pay Matthew, and 25% of the funds to take on a talented intern, Smit Lunagariya. He is comfortable working in Python, C and C++, and will be able to help with deliverables 7 and 8, as well as with testing and other tasks.