[Numpy-discussion] Introduction: NumPy developers at BIDS

[Sebastian Berg]

On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 12:29 +0300, Matti Picus wrote:
> On 08/04/18 21:02, Eric Firing wrote:
> > On 2018/04/07 9:19 PM, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> > > We would love community input on identifying the best areas &
> > > issues to
> > > pay attention to,
> > 
> > Stefan,
> > 
> > What is the best way to provide this, and how will the decisions be
> > made?
> > 
> > Eric
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> Hi. I feel very lucky to be able to dedicate the next phase of my
> career to working on NumPy. Even though BIDS has hired me, I view
> myself as working for the community, in an open and transparent way.
> In thinking about how to help make NumPy contributors more
> productive, we laid out these tasks:
> 

Welcome also from me :), I am looking forward to seeing how things
develop!

- Sebastian


> - triage open issues and pull requests, picking up some of the long-
> standing issues and trying to resolve them
> 
> - help with code review
>   
> - review and suggest improvements to the NumPy documentation
> 
> - if needed, help with releases and infrastructure maintenance tasks
> 
> Down the road, the next level of things would be
> 
> - setting up a benchmark site like speed.python.org
> 
> - add more downstream package testing to the NumPy CI so we can
> verify that new releases work with packages such as scipy, scikit-
> learn, astropy
> 
> To document my work, I have set up a wikihttps://github.com/mattip/nu
> mpy/wiki  that lists some longer-term tasks and ideas. I look forward
> to meeting and working with Tyler as well as SciPy2018 where there
> will be both a BOF meeting to discuss NumPy and a two-day sprint.
> 
> BIDS is ultimately responsible to the funders to make sure my work
> achieves the goals Stefan laid out, but I am going to try to be as
> responsive as possible to any input from the wider community, either
> directly (mattip on github and #numpy on IRC), via email, or this
> mailing list.
> 
> Matti
> 
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