Matthew Brett writes: > I'm afraid I find this whole thread very unpleasant.
> I have the odd impression of being back at high school. Some of the > big kids are pushing me around and then the other kids join in. > It didn't have to be this way. > Someone could have replied like this to Nathaniel: > "Oh - yes - I'm sorry - we actually had the discussion on the pull > request. Looking back, I see that we didn't flag this up on the > mailing list and maybe we should have. Thanks for pointing that out. > Maybe we could start another discussion of the API in view of the > changes that have gone in". > But that didn't happen. Well, I really thought that all the interested parties would take a look at [1]. While it's true that the pull requests are not obvious if you're not using the functionalities of the github web (or unless announced in this list), I think that Mark's announcement was precisely directed at having a new round of discussions after having some code to play around with and see how intuitive or counter-intuitive the implemented concepts could be. [1] http://old.nabble.com/NA-masks-for-NumPy-are-ready-to-test-td32291024.html Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
