# Numba Meeting: 2025-03-11

Attendees:
FPOC (last week): Stu
FPOC (incoming):

NOTE: All communication is subject to the [Numba Code of Conduct](https://github.com/numba/numba-governance/blob/accepted/code-of-conduct.md).

Please refer to [this calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=5rqnddm4gjrdfjm31fsv182epk%40group.calendar.google.com) for the next meeting date.

## ~~Office hour signup~~

(no signups)

## Discussion

- ~~present prototype for Numba Governance Doc~~ (defer to next week)
- discuss future of numba-scipy (will suggest to declare project as "unmaintained") (defer to next week)
- one comment: we should make GHA work so it is 1-click maintenance
- Move to LLVM 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 next?
- aim for LLVM 17
- anaconda distro doesn't have llvm16
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- `utils.erase_traceback()`

## New "Ready for Review" PRs

## 1. New Issues
- [numba#9957](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9957) - Python 3.14
- [numba#9958](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9958) - Maybe deprecate exception catching
- [numba#9959](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9959) - not finding tbb12.dll on Windows
- [numba#9963](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9963) - Object identity check fails for dictionary values
- [numba#9966](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9966) - Compilation hangs for typed list sort with nested jitclass
- [numba#9967](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9967) - Enable dispatching between GUFunc specializations via string arguments
- [numba#9968](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9968) - Request for Thread-local Timing Functions to Support Parallel Load Balancing
- [numba#9971](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9971) - Jitclass instance array element cannot be changed based on later code
- [llvmlite#1166](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1166) - Support volatile load/store

### Closed Issues

## 2. New PRs
- [numba#9962](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9962) - flake8 the script maint/gitlog2changelog.py
- [numba#9964](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9964) - remove upper pin on NumPy
- [numba#9965](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9965) - update win-64 conda builder test matrix
- [numba#9970](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9970) - [DO NOT MERGE] Added experimental test checks
- [numba#9972](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9972) - Fix issue with error handling in slice assignment.
- [llvmlite#1167](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1167) - fix llvmdev osx64 conda builder
- [llvmlite#1168](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1168) - [CI TEST] Move to llvm 16
- [llvmlite#1169](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1169) - Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v20

### Closed PRs
- [numba#9960](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9960) - update llvmlite artifact name in win-64 builder workflow
- merged - [numba#9961](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9961) - Fix flake8 issue on main branch.
- [numba#9969](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9969) - CI test for ir layer typed pointers