Minutes_2019_03_05

Attendees: Stuart, Stan, Siu, Ehsan, Todd

0. Feature Discussion

RC status
- checklist: https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/3833
linux32 EOL
- EOL by conda
- numba should continue to build+test against linux32 for easier diagnostic on 32-bit platforms.
- we can truncate the build matrix.
np116
- defer. do this after the release.

#3831 - ARMv8 cuda findlib issue
#3825 - Segmentation Fault after string comparison in jitted, cached function
- Adding to the caching bugs to be addressed in 0.44
#3824 - setup.py integration doc not for real, multi-file use case
- likely to need both code and doc updates
#3823 - "cannot determine Numba type" when calling AOT-compiled function from AOT-compiled function
#3822 - setup.py configuration without numba in build env
- need to respond to understand concern more clearly
#3819 - tar-ball missing on pypi
- revenge of the partial wheel upload
- will be fixed with next release
- easy to sdist the 0.42.1
#3818 - nested list typing bug
- Will mitigate this with explictly typed lists
#3817 - environment variable to have njit behave as jit?
- proposal
#3814 - Why Julia? Will Python/Numba and Python/Cython lose to Julia?
- Have put some thoughts here
- Probably should close issue and move discussion elsewhere
#3813 - Not support create a namedtuple object in function body in nopython mode?
- Need to open pull request with a fix
#3810 - Implement bytes on DeviceNDArray
- good first issue
#3807 - Code restructuring
- taking inventory of where everything is right now

#3832 - Handle single string as path in find_file()
- ready to merge
#3830 - Getitem should not return optional type
- pending CI, will be ready to merge
#3829 - Add docs for typed-dict
- ready to merge
#3826 - NumPy 1.16 support
- holding until short release cycle post 0.43.0
#3820 - WIP: Min max on iterables
- author still working on it
#3809 - Add debug guard to debug only C function.
- hides compiler warning for function only used in debug builds
- ready to merge
#3806 - WIP: @overload inliner
- in progress

#3821 - Replace PySys_WriteStdout with PySys_FormatStdout to ensure no truncation.
#3816 - Fix array.sum(axis) 1d input return type.
#3808 - Bump macro to include VS2014 to fix py3.5 build