PySAL Meeting 2023-06-01

Chair: Martin

Agenda

1. GSoC update

   • two meeting this far, good progress
   • may be good to document the onboarding process (setting up dev env, pre-commit, linting…)

2. nsf-pose update

   • Wei and Taylor on the team, James may join
   • some onboarding docs could be a part of the proposal

3. sea-narsc 23 plans

   • workshop approved, not listed yet (@sjsrey & @knaaptime in the morning, @lanselin & @pedrovma in the afternoon)

4. Shapely 2 transition

   • all PRs merged, Pysal main is PyGEOS free
   • releases are needed
     • pointpats
     • lib
     • esda
     • spaghetti
     • tobler done
     • momepy done

5. distutils deprecated

   • https://github.com/pysal/pysal/issues/1277
   • all packages depending on versioneer and direct import of distutils need to switch over to setuptools_scm

6. scipy summit report

   • scipy deprecating sparse matrix
     • https://scipy.github.io/devdocs/release/1.11.0-notes.html#highlights-of-this-release
     • https://github.com/pysal/libpysal/pull/529
   • dependents testing
     • https://github.com/scientific-python/reverse-dependency-testing
     • https://github.com/martinfleis/libpysal/actions/runs/5072473281/jobs/9113216106
     • we need to do some work on our test suites to ensure they can be cleanly exectued in this way and that all the tests pass
   • minimum supported versions
     • https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/
   • https://github.com/scverse/spatialdata/ & CZI

7. geograph update

   • There is a branch with new object based on pandas.DataFrame representing adjacencny list
     • https://github.dev/pysal/libpysal/tree/geographs
   • aim for a release of the experimental namespace in the next meta (July)
   • Serge will send a Doodle to organise next sprint
8. portland insna
   • Serge is attending to talk about networks/graphs

9. Other

10. Next meeting chair

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