[Numpy-discussion] Would like to patch docstring for numpy.random.normal

[Sebastian Berg]

On Di, 2015-03-10 at 11:22 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2015 11:15 AM, "Paul Hobson" <pmhobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Hobson <pmhobson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I feel your pain. Making it worse, numpy.random.lognormal takes
> "mean" and "sigma" as input. If there's ever a backwards incompatible
> release, I hope these things will be cleared up.
> >>
> >>
> >> There is a numpy 2.0 milestone ;)
> >>
> >
> > Is it worth submitting PRs against the existing 2.X branch or is
> that so far away that the can should be kicked down the road?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "the existing 2.X branch" (does such a thing
> exist somewhere?), but yeah, don't submit PRs like that. Best case
> they'd bit rot before we ever get around to 2.0, worst case 2.0 may
> never happen. (What, you liked python 2 -> 3 so much you want to go
> through that again?)
> 

We could try to maintain a list of things like this for others like
blaze to not fall into the same pits. But then I this is likely not
quite of that caliber ;).

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