# 2023-12-06 NumPy community meeting

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**Present:**

## Follow-up from the last meeting / discussions

_For the notes from the previous meeting, visit: https://github.com/numpy/archive/blob/main/community_meetings/community-2023-11-22.md_

- Reviewing 2.0 board (as a recurring thing)
- Updating [the 2.0 project board](https://github.com/orgs/numpy/projects/9/views/1)

- Completed giving talk about NumPy at PyData NYC conference
- Talk title: Comics in NumPy? More Likely Than you Think!
- Digital comic: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3e66a13901.html
- Recording will be uploaded in a few weeks at PyData's Youtube channel, will share when ready
- Krita source files, printable PDF and talk slides in the [repository](https://github.com/MarsBarLee/gsod-numpy-2023/tree/main/source-files)
- Next steps
- Review with Mukulika, one of the project mentors
- Community Review #3 of 10/16 pages so far
- Uploading comic to NumPy website, currently on heyzine
- Completion of last 6 pages
- <img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryIHONKmp.png" width="400">

- Array API changes PRs open

- Cyclic garbage collection?
- The hook used for it, would also be useful for string allocation management.

- Dropping Python 3.10:
- Not yet, there is probably little gain anyway.

- Thoughts on new array conversion API (guessing internal for now):
* still looking into this, but got a bit distracted with other things (and the whole wrapping)

- Discussion about array API PRs:
- `np.bool` and testing one should.
> [] ?
testing one should - Let's add to the NEP that we move out `numpy.array_api` into its own package/repo. Especially if the main namespace is already compliant, there isn't much of a reason to have the separate namespace inside numpy.

- Would it be OK to make NEP 50 the only default (can start cleaning up a lot, might unlock some options also)?
- Let's do if it becomes a real problem.

- f2py changes/failures/backports
- bunch up f2py changes (maybe even copy it in a single commit from main).
- Next 1.26.x will be an "f2py" release.

- Merge Highway Quick-sort pr https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24018
- Yes, all good. Let's go ahead with the merge, this supports Highway's high-level kernels.

- Supporting loongson[^loongarch] architecture (LSX)
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25215
- Has QEMU support since QEMU 7.1
- Sayed is fine with adding it, as long as they support it. Others agree.

- Removing `PyArray_GetCastFunc`
- PR: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25161

- Building/developing docs:
- Remove "Git for development" section?
- Trimming down https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/index.html (it looks quite poor and hard to navigate)
- Adding a mostly 1:1 copy of http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/building/index.html

- Separating out `libnpymath`; also undoing the C++ addition there.

- dealing with git submodules:
- `git config --global submodule.recurse true`
- parallel fetch: `git config --global fetch.parallel 0`

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15457
- Really old but useful F2PY PR :)

## New topics

## Action items

- **LoongArch** is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V. There are currently 3 variants: a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64). There are 4 privilege levels (PLVs) defined in LoongArch: PLV0~PLV3, from high to low. Kernel runs at PLV0 while applications run at PLV3. This document introduces the registers, basic instruction set, virtual memory and some other topics of LoongArch. — https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.4-rc7/loongarch/introduction.html

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