New package: BayesianInference v0.1.0

[JuliaRegistrator]

• Registering package: BayesianInference
• Repository: https://github.com/BGN-for-ASNA/BayesianInference.jl
• Created by: @SebastianSosa
• Version: v0.1.0
• Commit: 41c8767f73c5c996a4bf4c0cd17da1074f0f5a8a
• Reviewed by: @SebastianSosa
• Reference: BGN-for-ASNA/BayesianInference.jl@41c8767#commitcomment-172648866
• Description: BI for Julia

[gdalle]

Hi, congrats on the package! I would strongly recommend a less generic name, especially for a package that looks rather modest in scale (which means it cannot claim to represent all of Bayesian inference)

[gdalle]

Also, if I'm not mistaken there is a lot of type piracy

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[SebastianSosa]

Hi, congrats on the package! I would strongly recommend a less generic name, especially for a package that looks rather modest in scale (which means it cannot claim to represent all of Bayesian inference)

Unfortunately, the name cannot be changed. It must remain consistent across the Python and R versions, and it is also the name used in the submitted paper.

[SebastianSosa]

Also, if I'm not mistaken there is a lot of type piracy

Indeed there is. The sole purpose of this is to enable basic, direct mathematical operations on JAX arrays, thereby preventing Julia users from having to convert those arrays manually.

[SebastianSosa]

Hi, congrats on the package! I would strongly recommend a less generic name, especially for a package that looks rather modest in scale (which means it cannot claim to represent all of Bayesian inference)

What about changing the package name to BIJ? Would that be acceptable, or is the name too uninformative?

[goerz]

it is also the name used in the submitted paper.

As a general rule, that is not something we can take into account for registrations, unfortunately. Always register a package before publishing about it. I have no opinion on whether the current name is appropriate or not.

What about changing the package name to BIJ

Three-letter package names are no longer accepted for new packages, so that is not an option.

Also, if I'm not mistaken there is a lot of type piracy

Indeed there is.

I would be extremely skeptical of registering any package that commits type piracy. There may be exceptional circumstances where this could be okay, but IMO it would have to have substantial community consensus that that is indeed the best / only way to solve a particular problem, and that the potential issues associated with type piracy (invalidations, correctness issues) have been mitigated