add 2019-07-31 notes

Author: mattip

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+# 2019-07-31 NumPy Development Meeting
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+- Time: 11am Pacific Time
+- Join via Zoom at https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/762261535
+- [Trello workboard](https://trello.com/b/Azg4fYZH/numpy-at-bids)
+- [Previous meetings](https://github.com/BIDS-numpy/docs/tree/master/status_meetings)
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+**Present:** Inessa, Matthew Brett, Sebastian, Chuck, Kriti
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+
+## Follow-up from last meeting / discussions
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+- 1.17.0 released!
+- Proposal for dropping older Python versions [NEP 29](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086/files)
+- Conversation with GitHub about mechanism for monitoring community health, improve project planning, etc.
+    - A survey is planned.
+- Community building/website
+
+
+# Topics
+
+- Implications from [policy on dropping Python versions](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086)
+    - We need some data (Python 3.5 downloads)
+    - Maybe probably target things like Ubuntu LTS?
+    - The people involved in the discussion are not those affected by it. (we may force users to Anaconda).
+    - NEP could have options: Projects could decide how fast they move.
+    - (We "force" users to update, since we put bug fixes in new releases only after a while, no LTS)
+    - Invite others to this time slot next week. Matthew will look into data.
+- Moving towncrier files (Sebastian)
+    - upcoming folder in release notes?
+    - Check with Jupyter what they are using. (Some use tool to scrape changelog, not necessarily release notes in our style, of course that could be an option, but its a somewhat different approach to towncrier)
+- quantile method kwarg? (`statistics.quantiles`, note the plural uses one)
+    - Philip Stark (at UC berkeley).
+    - Maling list discussion will be needed.
+
+
+## Additional Details
+
+- Matti
+    -  On Vacation
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+- Sebastian
+    - Fixed up towncrier to be able to generate NumPy style release notes
+    - Worked on/discussed dtypes.
+    - tied up a bit by organizational things
+