Minutes_2022_09_13

Numba Meeting: 2022-09-13

Attendees: Andre Masella, Graham Markall, Nick Riasanovsky, Shannon Quinn, Todd A. Anderson, Siu Kwan Lam, stuart, LI Da, Val, brandon willard, Guilherme Leobas, Luk FPOC (last week): Guilherme

NOTE: All communication is subject to the Numba Code of Conduct.

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0. Discussion

• PR #8360: Pre-commit update Flake8 and add basic pre-commit-hooks for linting - Graham Markall

  • Will proceed with this PR
  • Suggest not adding new pre-commit hooks to make it easier to merge
  • Bump of flake8 version should be fine

• Potentially closeable PRs:

  • [WIP] Rewrite refcount pruning #3857: https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/3857
  • [DISCUSSION] Allow CUDA array interface to be a callable #5751: https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/5751

• PR #8250: Added a few more tests for np.random.* - Guilherme

  • Andre will review the PR

• PR #8134: Memory leak in dynamic exceptions - Guilherme

• Cache invalidation take 2 (Luk) - https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8396

1. New Issues

• #8430 - Feature request: Expose optimisation configuration into user space.

Closed Issues

• #8428 - Blunder when accessing a list item in a loop
• #8433 - FakeCUDAModule has no attribute shfl_down_sync
• #8434 - vectorize with parallel target and OpenMP deprecation warnings

2. New PRs

• #8423 - Remove public facing and CI references to 32 bit linux support.
• #8424 - Make LLVM initialization lazy in the CPU target.
• #8426 - Try using a single conda solve in Azure CI.
• #8427 - Shorten the time to verify test discovery.
• #8429 - changelog generator script
• #8431 - Replace @overload_glue by @overload for np.linspace and np.take
• #8432 - Refactor carray/farray to use @overload
• #8435 - Migrate np.atlesast_? functions from glue_lowering to overload

Closed PRs

• merged - #8421 - Update release checklist: add a task to check dependency pinnings on subsequent releases (e.g. PATCH)
• merged - #8422 - Switch public CI builds to use gdb from conda packages.
• merged - #8425 - Post 0.56.2 cleanup

3. Next Release: Version 0.57.0/0.40.0, RC Jan 2023