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Meta-issue: Moving discussion location and reframing focus #7

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jthielen opened this issue Sep 21, 2022 · 5 comments
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Meta-issue: Moving discussion location and reframing focus #7

jthielen opened this issue Sep 21, 2022 · 5 comments

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@jthielen
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jthielen commented Sep 21, 2022

In the past year after the initial duck array coordination meeting, there has been little engagement on this GitHub repo, and other than internal work in xarray and xarray companion packages (which, certainly, has been a lot), there has been little progress in nested array compatibility and interaction in the ecosystem. For those still watching this repo, would a more productive avenue to move these discussions forward be to raise these topics on https://discuss.scientific-python.org/, which has seen quite a bit of engagement recently, and close out this repo?

Also, with the progress on the Array API standards, I believe that the issues here that remain in need of resolution are centered around arrays that wrap other arrays (e.g., xarray, pint, dask) and not duck arrays in general. While I don't have any immediate ideas for a catchy name to use like "duck array" was (wrapping arrays? container arrays? meta arrays?), perhaps we could gain more traction by narrowing the focus?

@jthielen jthielen changed the title META: Moving dicussion location and reframing focus Meta-issue: Moving dicussion location and reframing focus Sep 21, 2022
@jthielen jthielen changed the title Meta-issue: Moving dicussion location and reframing focus Meta-issue: Moving discussion location and reframing focus Sep 21, 2022
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TomNicholas commented Sep 21, 2022 via email

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See also the SPECS - issues in this repo would all make for good SPECs

https://scientific-python.org/specs/

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This scope narrowing seems logical to me, and may be helpful.

While I don't have any immediate ideas for a catchy name to use like "duck array" was (wrapping arrays? container arrays? meta arrays?), perhaps we could gain more traction by narrowing the focus?

Meta arrays is the term I've heard most often. Container arrays works too; wrapping arrays seems less nice to me.

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With https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/creating-community-standards-for-meta-arrays-arrays-that-wrap-other-arrays/563 and @SimonHeybrock's https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/multiple-duck-array-layers-composability-implementations-and-usability-concerns/552, I think we can consider this repo archivable? I tried to avoid directly referencing any of the contents here (and instead reproduce them as needed).

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