Re: [Jepp-users] New Maintainer - Nathan Jensen

[Nathan J. <ndj...@gm...>]

Thanks for the introduction.  For a little more background, I've been
working with Jep since 2008 but only recently have I been able to revisit
that work, clean it up, and contribute the new features back to the Jep
community.  Jep is a significant component of a critical production system
that I helped architect and continue to support, so I will strive to
maintain the integrity and quality of the Jep source to ensure stability,
maintainability, and backwards compatibility.  Mike will still be around as
a consultant and watching Jep's evolution, offering insight as time
allows.  We'll probably need support from the community regarding platform
specific issues, as unfortunately the only significant testing I can do
with the systems available to me is on Redhat and CentOS Linux.

The most significant of the new features is the ability to send numpy
ndarrays between Java and Python.  There are a few gotchas with numpy that
I will be documenting and submitting to the numpy community with the hopes
that they can fix or alleviate those issues.  Numpy support and a few other
new features will be forthcoming in the near future in Jep 3.3.  I'm still
cleaning up a few things and testing, but if you'd like a preview/alpha
release, you can check out the branch named jepNumpy on github.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Mike Johnson <mi...@pu...>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since I don't use the JVM or Jep regularly, the pace of changes to Jep has
> greatly slowed as I've gotten busy with work and school. Thankfully, Nathan
> Jensen is interested in continuing the progress of the library by adding
> some really cool new features like Numpy support.
>
> He's already been working on merging in some changes he's made as part of
> his day job back into the mainline and I've been impressed by the quality
> of his work. Nathan is the new project maintainer and has my support for
> taking Jep in new directions.
>
> I'll still be around, probably providing OS X support for the time being.
> I know many people have been interested in Numpy support over the years,
> too. If that's you, you may consider contacting Nathan and contributing to
> future Jep versions.
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
>
>