But sure, if this is actually about bike shedding some naming, we can move it and get some of the SciML devs the right ownership access to keep it maintained.
I agree with that perspective: this is a bikeshed. But it’s one I’ve grudgingly admitted is important. I’ve long been baffled about why some people are so unwilling to use the multitudinous array algorithms in JuliaImages just because of the *Images in the package names. But it’s been confirmed over and over again, with more requests than I can count to “Please just move this into a package not named Images so I can use it.” Which to me makes no sense, but there you have it.
So the plan is to split a fair amount of the functionality in JuliaImages packages out to JuliaArrays. Portions of JuliaImages will essentially be reduced to the “now we can specialize those methods for colors!!!” organization, which is pretty trivial.
But people really seem to want that to happen, so we’re going to do it.
To do that we need a certain collection of array traits to make this whole thing work together. If I have my history right, @Zach_Christensen (who has been doing more than anyone to make the generalization of needed traits a reality) “came from” the JuliaImages world. That fact that he’s been doing his traits work starting from a package that was created to serve the needs of SciML is awesome, because it helps ensure that the results of his work will meet the needs of a diverse community.
But just as folks are reluctant to rely on packages that happen to live in JuliaImages, I think it makes sense to ask why the same thing shouldn’t apply to other organizations. Code, it seems, should live in the place where a naive user would be most likely to find it, and when we worry about who started it where we just risk putting up unnecessary barriers to discovery. For something focused on array traits, the answer is obviously JuliaArrays.
As you say, it’s critically important to set the key contributors up with all the administrative privileges they need to continue their work.