On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Travis Oliphant <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> > Hi Travis, >> > >> > It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to >> > work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. >> > >> > I am slightly confused about roadmaps for numpy 1.8 and 2.0. This >> > needs discussion on the ML, and our release manager currently is Ralf >> > - he is the one who ultimately decides what goes when. >> >> Thank you for reminding me of this. Ralf and I spoke several days ago, >> and have been working on how to give him more time to spend on SciPy >> full-time. > > > Well, full-time is the job that I get paid for:) > >> As a result, he will be release managing NumPy 1.7, but for NumPy 1.8, I >> will be the release manager again. Ralf will continue serving as release >> manager for SciPy. > > > I had planned to bring this up only after the 1.7 release but yes, I would > like to push the balance of my open-source work a little from > release/maintenance work towards writing more new code. I've been doing both > NumPy and SciPy releases for about two years now, and it's time for me to > hand over the manager hat for one of those two. And my preference is to keep > on doing the SciPy releases rather than the NumPy ones. > >> For NumPy 2.0 and beyond, Mark Wiebe will likely be the release manager. >> I only know that I won't be release manager past NumPy 1.X. > > > Travis, it's very good to see that the release manager role can be filled > going forward (it's not the most popular job), but I think the way it should > work is that people volunteer for this role and then the community agrees on > giving a volunteer that role. > > I actually started contributing when David asked for someone to take over > from him in the above manner. Maybe someone else will step up now, giving > you or Mark more time to work on new NumPy features (which I'm pretty sure > you'd prefer). > > Cheers, > Ralf > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
Ralf, I will miss you as a numpy release manager! You have not only done an incredible job but also taken the role to a higher level. Your attitude and attention to details has been amazing. Thanks, Bruce _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
