Thanks a lot, William. I've submitted our application to NumFOCUS today to meet the Apr 15 deadline. I'll keep everyone posted as soon as I hear anything back.
On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 9:05:36 AM UTC-7 William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I also strongly support this initiative for Sage to join NumFocus at this > point in time. > > Regarding Cython, I made up the name in maybe 2008, and started it as a > project by combining "Pyrex" that Greg Ewing worked on periodically, > my own fork of Pyrex that had features I added that were needed for Sage, > and Stefan Behnel's fork that was needed for lxml. > Robert Bradshaw (my phd student at the time) and Craig Citro (my postdoc) > then started working on it, and they added a huge amount > of functionality, e.g., they fully implemented closures, which was > nontrivial; also, I remember they added some type > inference optimizations, and generally greatly improved the unit testing. > I've cc'd Robert and Craig in case they want to add anything. > Sage has always been I think by far the biggest Cython user, and testing > of Cython by Sage helps ensure better stability and quality. > > -- William > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 8:50 AM David Roe <roed...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I support Matthias' initiative to join NumFocus. Looking at the >> application <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/NumFOCUS>, there are >> only a few todo items: >> * Describe the shared history with Cython and IPython. This doesn't need >> to be extensive, but would be useful. >> * If we update the code of conduct in #37501 >> <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/37501>, we should update the >> dates when the code of conduct was last modified. >> >> There is also discussion at the bottom about Sage's governance structure, >> but I don't think that's required for an affiliated project. >> David >> >> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthia...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I don't think one needs to read between the lines. Per >>> https://jupyter.org/governance/linux-proposal.html#project-jupyter-s-needs >>> it's about funding goals in the $1-$2 million range + permanent staffing + >>> support for "operating" (which is described there as "legal/trademark, >>> marketing, fundraising, accounting, contracts, internships, events, dev >>> ops, etc.") >>> None of these seem relevant for our current effort to become a NumFOCUS >>> affiliated project. >>> >>> But as there is a sudden sign of life in this thread, let me point out >>> that I have an expanded version of the initial proposal draft: >>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/NumFOCUS and I welcome discussion >>> here and collaborative editing in the wiki page. >>> I'll submit by the next target date (Apr 15). >>> >>> Matthias >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 11:28:38 AM UTC-8 kcrisman wrote: >>> >>>> On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 2:08:07 PM UTC-5 William Stein wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Related to NumFOCUS, this new proposal for Jupyter to restructure their >>>> relationship with NumFocus is possibly relevant: >>>> >>>> https://jupyter.org/governance/linux-proposal.html >>>> >>>> >>>> Interesting, and certainly relevant. It's a little unclear to me why >>>> NumFOCUS is not appropriate for them, other than a vague reference to >>>> operations - can anyone read between the lines for those of us not as >>>> plugged into that world? >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sage-devel" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d5bf8367-6adf-463a-8d0c-d084e2d8756cn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d5bf8367-6adf-463a-8d0c-d084e2d8756cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAChs6_%3DYOH03G9riLrthc1b4h0ZniYbBKf%2BgWFHxy1M%3D6SP4Ow%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAChs6_%3DYOH03G9riLrthc1b4h0ZniYbBKf%2BgWFHxy1M%3D6SP4Ow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/34fc5a72-494e-4cc4-86b3-4d42dede3a3cn%40googlegroups.com.
