[yt-dev] Near-term maintenance goals

[Matthew Turk]

Hi all,

I wanted to lay out a few things that I'm hoping to work on in the near
term future.  These are all maintenance goals for yt, not new
functionality; I'm thinking that for me at least new functionality may need
to take a backseat for a little while, even though it's tons of fun.

 * Performance: there have been performance regressions for patch AMR code,
as well as the codebase as a whole, in support of generality.  I've started
looking at this and hope to spend more time on it.  Sam, Kacper and I have
all expressed interest in plugging at this.  Next week i'm going to try to
set up a hangout where we look at issues, set up regression testing for
performance, and then even perhaps try to address them in the hangout.
 * Python3: I have spent a little bit of time working on Python 3 in the
past (mostly in collaboration with Jill), and even just updated the PR this
morning.  There are still test failures and errors which I would like to
fix.  My plan here is to first get a working 2to3 codebase, and then
evaluate single codebase.  We've recently gotten requests for this as well.
 * Infrastructure: shoring up the infrastructure to expand testing and
development is a near-term goal, and Kacper and I will probably be
partnering on this.

-Matt
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