[Numpy-discussion] status for 1.6.0

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The list of open issues for 1.6.0 is down to a handful:
>>
>> - f2py segfault on Ubuntu reported by David (David, did you get any
>> further with this?)
>> - #1801: test_noncentral_f failure on win64
>> - #1798: type promotion regression (needs review,
>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/73)
>
> I've pushed this change, anyone interested should review the tests for this
> to verify that it accords with their intuition:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance%2F1.6.x/numpy/core/tests/test_numeric.py#L372
>>
>> - API docs for new parameters to ufuncs (full list: 'casting', 'out',
>> 'order', 'subok', 'dtype'),
>
> Done.

Great, thanks.
>
>>
>> - API docs, some docstrings and update of NEP for datetime
>>
>> I'm planning to release the first release candidate next weekend if
>> these are solved.  As far as I know no one is working on the doc
>> issues right now. It would be great if someone could step up and do
>> this.
>
> There's a new ticket #1805 which should get fixed for the RC too.

Charles already attached a patch to #1805, it would be great if you
could review that. If the fix is correct we're good to go.

Ralf