Governance

lazyarray is a small, community-developed Python library hosted under the NeuralEnsemble organisation on GitHub. It welcomes contributions from anyone who is interested in the project. All contributors agree to abide by the Code of Conduct.

Maintainers

The current active maintainer is:

• Andrew P. Davison (CNRS / NeuroPSI)

Past authors and contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file at the root of the repository.

Any contributor who has had at least three pull requests accepted may be nominated as a maintainer. Nominations must be approved by a majority of the existing maintainer(s), with no dissenting maintainer.

Contributions

All non-trivial contributions are made by pull request against the master branch, with the exception of quick bug fixes affecting fewer than ten lines of code, which a maintainer may push directly.

Pull requests may be approved by any maintainer; anyone is welcome to join the discussion. In case of disagreement, the maintainers will try to reach consensus, taking account of any input from the wider community. If consensus cannot be reached, decisions will be made by majority vote of the maintainers.

Code review checks for:

• tests covering new or changed behaviour;

• a corresponding changelog entry;

• no regressions in the CI matrix;

• adherence to the coding style.

Decision-making

Day-to-day decisions are made by the maintainers. Larger questions, such as breaking API changes, are discussed publicly on the NeuralEnsemble Google Group or in a GitHub issue, with a reasonable opportunity for community input before a decision is taken.