Minutes_2019_05_14

Attendees: Ehsan, Todd, Stuart, Val, Stan, Siu

0. Feature Discussion

LLVM status
- merged LLVM 8 patches
- using LLVM 7.1 for ppc64le
- numba master in-sync
Deprecation warning status
- merged
- #4083 - relating to issues with warning classes. Need comparison methods for warning classes.
CUDA environment variable fixes
- need to rewrite logic
- Siu will work on this
Making Iterator API public / add deprecation warning & support older behavior?
- backward incompatible change needs to be partially reverted and tagged with a deprecation warning
- Stuart will investigate
Triage pending PRs for what should go into 0.44

#4083 - TypeError in warnings machinery
#4080 - typing error numpy.shape "not supported"
- See PR
**** #4075 - parfors array_analysis (possibly) bug
- Todd will investigate while working on similar issue
#4074 - meta-issue: All NumPy functions with no implementation
#4073 - jitclass throws NameError: name shadowing
#4072 - Add note in CUDA docs about signature in @cuda.jit causing immediate compilation
- Easy to do
**** #4071 - Python-3.8.0a4 wheel support ?
- https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html#cpython-bytecode-changes
- 3.8.0 Final is 2019-10-21
- Have to add support in 0.45 or 0.46
#4069 - out parameter broken for cuda ufuncs
- Confirmed bug

#4081 Impl np.shape and support function for asarray.
**** #4079 Add Documentation for atomicity of typed.Dict
- Needs review
- Stan will respond
#4078 Check tuple length
- Needs some updates from author
#4077 [WIP] Add np select
- In progress
#4076 [WIP] Add numpy windowing functions support (np.bartlett, np.hamming, np.blackman, np.hanning, np.kaiser)
- In progress
**** #4066 Expose numba CLI via python -m numba
- Needs review from Val
**** #4061 Change IPython cache dir name to numba_cache
- Need to figure out how to test
**** #4060 Remove remaining mentions of autojit in docs
- ~~Needs merge master~~ (merged master)
- Should we get rid of numba/examples/notebooks/
**** #4059 [WIP] Autodetect cuda libs