[mlpack] An mlpack planning meeting!

[Marcus Edel]

Great idea, excited to join the meeting, hopefully, we can figure something out
that works for most of us.

> On 15. Mar 2019, at 22:57, Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Over the past months (I hoped it would be weeks but instead it took
> months) I have been trying to revamp the processes through which we
> manage mlpack, since up to this point it's really been pretty ad-hoc.
> For instance, we seem to release whenever I'm able to, but the release
> effort is huge and so... there has not been a release in a while. :)
> 
> The new website should do a lot to assist with the release process,
> since that was one of the big bottlenecks.  If you're interested in
> taking a look, see https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack.org/pull/6 and
> please do feel free to comment.
> 
> In any case, mlpack has grown enough that one person can no longer keep
> up with quite everything that is going on.  So I thought a useful way
> forward here is that we can get together and meet and plot out a roadmap
> to the next release.  I thought also this might be really nice to do as
> a video meeting, so we can see each other and talk to each other and get
> to know each other a little better. :)  (Of course, if that doesn't
> work, we can always do an IRC meeting too.)
> 
> It seems reasonable to make these kind of meetings regular; perhaps
> maybe once a month or twice a month.  We can keep them relatively quick
> and discuss the state of current projects, what should go into or stay
> out of upcoming releases, and longer-term goals and directions that each
> of us have.
> 
> So, for now, I mostly wanted to take a straw poll to see what
> maintainers and contributors think.  Good idea / bad idea?
> 
> If enough of us think it's a reasonable idea to do, then we can start
> figuring out a time with a whenisgood or something.  We're globally
> distributed, so the timezones may be a little hard (actually the only
> continent we're missing for contributors is Antarctica, so if anyone
> knows someone there... see if you can get them to make a grammar fix or
> something).  But we can take notes during the meeting to share with
> anyone who didn't make it.
> 
> Thanks, and have a great weekend!
> 
> Ryan
> 
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