[IPython-dev] Proposal: soft moratorium on re-architecting for 5.0

[Fernando Perez]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would there be support for developing a simple docs rubric and
> blocking 4.0 based on packages passing that rubric? SciPy could be a
> great place for creating that rubric...
>

I'm not very keen on this idea.  My impression is that we are very, very
close to having 4.0 ready to go, and that at this point, putting a big
block on the actual release would actually do much more harm than good,
unless we can put a *very tight* time bound on it.

My suggestion would be instead:

- Let's open 5.x branches even now, for things where a few people are
genuinely suffering from the blockage already (perhaps Matthias and Kester
in certain areas, or Sylvain?).

- Wrap up the 4.0 work as soon as possible, with the doc scaffolding we've
been able to put in place.

- As we start our 5.x cycle, we will make docs work a priority of our core
team.  Once some of our hiring work is done, I may be able to find some
cycles for this, and it's an area I would be delighted to put some thinking
and effort towards.

Or did you have a very constrained (time-wise) idea in mind?

Cheers

f

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