Marc Garcia

> No objections in principle, I just have been struggling to find time to maintain IPython and review PRs. Totally understandable. Let me know if we can be of help....

I don't think it's only the potential for abuse of power of the steering commitee that is worrying. As of today, the actual way of making decisions is that for...

Thank you for sharing your opinion and experiences. I don't see how the new governance would help in these examples. You wanted to do something, you asked, nobody objected or...

@tswast if the remaining tests are not trivial to fix, may be we can xfail them for now, so we get green builds?

> since the BQ backend somewhat strangely subclasses from that I didn't know that, that's strange... Up to you on what to do. If we can get the actual bugs...

I think adding bigquery to `@pytest.mark.xfail_backends` would be the best one. `xfail_unsupported` would catch it automatically if the features raises one of the "unsupported" exceptions. And `skip_backends` would be more...

Eventually I'll implement a way to fetch the docs of the external backends and publish them in the Ibis website. Need to think exactly how to do it, since I...

Thanks for all the information, that's very useful to know. We clearly need to plan this well, if it ever happens. OmniSci seems to be happy with the idea, and...

> Another thought: I'd still want some custom code to execute the query text once compiled & transform to pandas dataframe. SQLAlchemy -> pandas is possible with just the SQLAlchemy...

We discussed with @rgommers that it'd be good for users to have the navigation somehow standardized among projects (mainly for users common to different projects). You structure looks quite good...