[Numpy-discussion] Governance model request

[Marten van Kerkwijk]

Hi All,

I've been reading this thread with amazement and a bit of worry. It seems
Nathaniel's proposal is clearly an improvement, even if it is not perfect.
But it is in the end for a project where, at least as seen from the
outside, the main challenge is not in governance, but rather in having only
a small group of people who understand the code well enough that they are
able to make and judge modifications. As such, this discussion doesn't seem
worthy of the effort, and even less of needless heat and irritation, of the
type that seems unlikely would have arisen if this conversation had been in
person instead of per e-mail.

Might it be an idea to accept the proposal provisionally, returning to it a
year from now with practical experience? This certainly has the benefit of
allowing to switch focus to the more pressing and fortunately also more
interesting work to be done on interfacing numpy/ndarray nicely with other
classes (i.e., __numpy_ufunc__ and/or similar, and the dtype
generalisations, which have me quite intrigued -- either might be very
interesting for the Quantity class in astropy, as well as for a
work-in-progress Variable class [which propagates uncertainties including
covariances]).
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All the best,

Marten

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