Stefan brought up the idea of a NumPy paper at the sprint on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Here is a summary of the feedback:
- General interest in doing this, as long as someone takes responsibility for leading the process all the way through
- Ideally few initial writers that complete most of the paper, and then opens it up for community feedback
- Need to try and wrap it up in a short amount of time, otherwise process derails
- What should the content be?
- History
- New features?
- Future developments?
- Success stories (overlap with SciPy paper?)
Stefan and Jarrod have volunteered to take responsibility for leading this process through. To get the process started, we created this repository and will recruit some additional authors to complete most of the paper. Once we have something ready to share, we will ask the community for feedback and transfer this repo to the NumPy organization. Our goal is to get a full draft completed by mid- to late-January.
We are following the general outline and authorship policy used for the recent SciPy paper: https://github.com/scipy/scipy-articles/tree/master/scipy-1.0