Pandas Development Meetings

Notes from a first meeting (2015-02-25): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tGbTiYORHiSPgVMXawiweGJlBw5dOkVJLY-licoBmBU/edit

This is a vague brainstorm of all possible topics we could discuss on a future Pandas Development meeting. So go ahead and complement it with your ideas:

• Take notes?
• Short introduction of ourselves
• Some debatable PRs/issues that could need some more real-time discussion?
  • unique API: defined order or not? #9346
  • label-based slicing with not-included labels #8613
• How do we want to deal with 'related' (sub)packages? See the discussion on pandas-datareader (#8961) or ROOT io (#9387)
• Core dev workflow things:
  • issue labeling, closing, milestone, .. practices (eg see #8963
  • release management
  • formal internals documentation (package layout on the filesystem, Blocks/BlockManagers)
  • using gitter
• future vision, larger features we would want
  • an indexer for looking up nearest values? #9258
  • smoothing over the index/columns distinction (e.g., #8162)
• Do we want to do this more? On which time basis?