dask-histogram as part of dask-contrib

[douglasdavis]

I've been working on dask-histogram for a little while now and it's "complete" w.r.t. the initial goal (make boost-histogram Dask collection compatible). It's something I'm happy to continue developing, maintaining, and releasing. @jrbourbeau and I had a quick chat about it potentially being a good project for dask-contrib and I'd be happy for it to live there if there are no objections.

[jrbourbeau]

+1 from me. I think dask-histogram would make a good contrib project. There's an open PR into dask (xref dask/dask#7354) which outlines the criteria for adding a new package to the dask-contrib GitHub org (note that dask-histogram meets all the current criteria). Perhaps this will provide good motivation for us to finish up that document and then move dask-histogram over.

As a side note, if the goal of dask-histogram is to integrate boost-histogram with Dask, you might consider seeing if the boost-histogram developers have an interest in including the functionality from dask-histogram directly in boost-histogram. This type of upstreaming has happened before (e.g. with dask-xgboost and dask-lightgbm) and is likely to increase the visibility of any boost-histogram + Dask capabilities for boost-histogram users. Though this is totally up to you -- I'm just bringing this up as a suggestion.

[jakirkham]

Also +1 from me

[martindurant]

I'm sure we have enough votes. @douglasdavis , are you ready to make the move, or are there still conversations elsewhere you wish to clear up first?

[jakirkham]

Agreed I think the other question is, how we do the transfer? IOW who has permissions on dask-contrib to facilitate this and what does Doug need to do to make the move

[martindurant]

@jrbourbeau , can you make me an admin on dask-contrib so I can do the move? I assume all dask admins should be dask-contrib admins for this kind of thing.

[jakirkham]

Agreed would be good to add all admins over there

[douglasdavis]

I'm sure we have enough votes. @douglasdavis , are you ready to make the move, or are there still conversations elsewhere you wish to clear up first?

Just mentioning here that I had a quick chat with Martin confirming I'm ready for it to be moved to dask-contrib, I passed ownership to him in prep for making the move.

[jrbourbeau]

I've invited John, Martin, Julia, Ben, and Matt to be admins for dask-contrib. If other dask org admins would like to be added, just let me know

[martindurant]

Thanks!
Done: https://github.com/dask-contrib/dask-histogram

[jakirkham]

Thanks all! 😄