Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mark Wiebe wrote: Hi Mark, great to have you thinking (and coding) about this! >> - Marc also commented that making datetime64 time-zone naive would be >> "the easy way" > > I've experimented a little bit with one possibility in this direction within > dynd. Bas

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-14 Thread Mark Wiebe
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: > > I wish it were. It seems unreasonably difficult to get constructive > > feedback. Chris is pretty much the only one making the attempt and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > I wish it were. It seems unreasonably difficult to get constructive > feedback. Chris is pretty much the only one making the attempt and that > discussion petered out. well, Nathaniel Smith chimed in, and Mark Weibe commented a bit (as he

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-13 Thread Charles R Harris
I wish it were. It seems unreasonably difficult to get constructive feedback. Chris is pretty much the only one making the attempt and that discussion petered out. I don't use datetime64 much myself, probably what we need is a developer who does use that facility. Any volunteers? Chuck On Tue, A

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-13 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: > >>> > Datetime64 will not be modified in this release. >>> >>> I now there is neither the time nor the will for all that it needs, >>> but please, please, please

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: >> > Datetime64 will not be modified in this release. >> >> I now there is neither the time nor the will for all that it needs, >> but please, please, please, can we yank out the broken timezone >> handling at least? >> >> https://github.co

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-12 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: > > > Datetime64 will not be modified in this release. > > I now there is neither the time nor the will for all that it needs, > but please, pl

Re: [Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > Datetime64 will not be modified in this release. I now there is neither the time nor the will for all that it needs, but please, please, please, can we yank out the broken timezone handling at least? https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issue

[Numpy-discussion] About ready to start 1.8 release process.

2013-08-12 Thread Charles R Harris
Hi All, I think we are about ready to start on the 1.8 release. There are a few things left to do, but there are PR's for most of them. There are a couple of issues that I think need discussion. 1. Should diagonal return a view in this release or the next? 2. Should multiple field selection