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Timeline

michaelosthege edited this page May 1, 2020 · 15 revisions

PyMC Timeline

As of May 1st, 2020 this page intends to give a diffuse estimate about where PyMC3 is heading in the near and mid-term future.

The PyMC3 project is alive and well, with new features coming in and people picking it up for new projects.

At the same time we're monitoring how the world of probabilistic programming is evolving and we're preparing to stabilize PyMC3 in the long term. In November 2018 we began this by factoring out plotting, stats and diagnostics to ArviZ, and we're now trying to make PyMC3 more maintainable and easier to productionize.

This involves improving our documentation, release management and working on PyMC3's internals to make it easier to fix bug or incompatibilities.

At some point in the future (with lots of uncertainty), there will inevitably be an incompatibility that we can't fix, which is why some development effort is also directed towards new exciting projects such as PyMC4.