Monthly Math development meeting: 9/19/2019, 10am

[rok_cesnovar]

@syclik

• Policy updates: we’re waiting on exact wording, but we can talk about what we’d like our development process to be and we can work toward creating a policy that makes sense.

There is an update on this. Just linking here so we have it handy for the meeting.

Level of Review Necessary for (math) PRs

Following on from this discussion on math issue #1321, @syclik asked me to formulate what I’d like to see in a necessary review policy. I think this is fairly simple, so I’m curious as to what level of detail’s going to be necessary here. This policy is only complicated by the fact that there are two notions of external: external as in used by the Stan language and external as in used by other parts of the math lib or developers looking to extend the math lib. Review policy All functions …