Update

The sprint is over and a lot of good work has been done. A ScipySprintOhSevenSummary is being written.

SciPy Sprint 0.7

• Date: 1, 2 November 2008
• Find us on: irc.freenode.net in channel #scipy

As industry and academia slows down towards the end of the year, we hope to tap some developer resources for a final sprint or two towards SciPy 0.7. There has never been so much low-hanging fruit before: the bug tracker is filled with tickets just waiting to be triaged and fixed!

We are holding a SciPy sprint on the 1st and 2nd of November. If some of you are willing to donate 2 hours of your time, this would be a great opportunity to assist us in getting ready for the next Big Release of SciPy.

We shall start working on Saturday morning in South Africa, and soon thereafter America should wake up to the smell of freshly triaged tickets.

Priorities

• Open tickets

Topics

The sprints will centre around these tasks. Format of this list is "task [contact person]".

• Tickets - close as many as possible
• Documentation
  • Help Pauli on the documentation infra-structure [Pauli Virtanen]
    • See http://code.google.com/p/pydocweb/issues/list for a list of pydocweb related tickets. Tickets for the sprint are marked "ToSprint?".
  • Integrate Nathan's sparse docs into Sphinx docs [Nathan Bell]
• Merging
  • Help Tiziano to test and merge symeig functionality [Robert Kern]
  • NumPy?: Merge Generalized Ufuncs for 1.3 [Stefan van der Walt]
• Restructuring
  • Unify lib/linalg linear algebra routines [Jarrod Millman]
  • Merge FFT refactoring / Removing all backends but fftpack to scikits ? [David Cournapeau]
  • Making scipy 0.7 python 2.6 ready ? [David Cournapeau]

• Marketing
  • Complete the web-page design started at SciPy?'08 [Stefan]

Locations

South Africa

• Organizer: Stéfan van der Walt (082-901-6599)
• Location: Media Lab at the University of Stellenbosch (map)

• Heroes of the day [Saturday]:
  • Konrad Blum
  • Christian Christelis
  • Herman Engelbrecht
  • Graeme Glass
  • Pieter Holtzhausen
  • Neil Muller
  • Pieter Rautenbach
  • Gert-Jan van Rooyen
  • Pauli Virtanen
  • Farron Yssel [coffee baron]

• Die Hards [Sunday]:
  • Konrad Blum
  • Christian Christelis
  • Pieter Holtzhausen

• Tickets closed:
  • #403
  • #535
  • #448
  • #288
  • #771
  • #599
  • #497
  • #662
  • #515
  • #699
  • #643
  • #518
  • #540
  • #539
  • #770
  • #547
  • Pauli's one man army:
    • #686
    • #757
    • #764
    • #762
    • #763
    • #765
    • #772
    • #289

South Africa II, 29/11/2008

• Location: Synthasite, Cape Town, South Africa
• Sprinters:
  • Simon Cross
  • Jonathan Hitchcock
  • Neil Muller
  • Adrianna Pińska
  • Jeremy Thurgood
  • Stéfan van der Walt
• Tickets closed:
  • NumPy #954
  • #653
  • #544
  • #756

Berkeley, CA

• Organizer: Jarrod Millman
• Location: CIRL, UC Berkeley
• Participant:
  • Jarrod Millman
  • Paul Ivanov
  • Damian Eads
  • Chris Burns
• Tickets:
  • #780
  • #781
  • #782
  • #784
  • #702

Japan

• Revamp FFT: done (all backends but fftpack removed)
• #244 fixed
• #725: ARPACK now works correctly on Mac OS X
• #331: lfilter segfaults. Added some unit tests, and basically rewrote from scratch the lfilter implementation using array iterator instead of custom iteration which broke on some corner cases (the whole sigtoolsmodule.c would benefit from a major cleaning).