Daniel McCloy

our minimum supported NumPy is 1.23, [which has `np.random.default_rng()`](https://numpy.org/doc/1.23/reference/random/generator.html). We should change all instances in our code to use that instead of legacy calls to `randn()` or `RandomState()`

HTML repr tables have really bad text contrast ratios

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as seen in the [Eyetracking tutorial:](https://mne.tools/stable/auto_tutorials/preprocessing/90_eyetracking_data.html) _Originally posted by @scott-huberty in https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/issues/12750#issuecomment-2269424078_

Clarify and document our submodule layout principles

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I think it would be useful to clarify/discuss why the other stats functions do not get to live in their own namespace. What's the rationale behind it? Is it the...

You can see it on any page of MNE-Python docs, e.g. https://mne.tools/dev/ ``` Uncaught TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null bootstrap.js:30 ``` The error links to `webpack://pydata_sphinx_theme/src/pydata_sphinx_theme/assets/scripts/bootstrap.js` line 30, AKA here: https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/blob/c91e2f21e520ed99f69076f2f58148fd0fc6b562/src/pydata_sphinx_theme/assets/scripts/bootstrap.js#L30-L31...

adapt to sphinx 8 release

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Sphinx8.0.0rc1 is out: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/12629 we should 1. make sure everything still works, and 2. check our pins and see if we can/should drop support for any earlier versions soon

RFC: auto-generate environment.yaml from pyproject.toml

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in #12890 we synchronized (core) dependencies listed in our README with those in `pyproject.toml`. I think we should do the same with `environment.yaml` too. I wrote a quick script to...

update governance

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Update our public governance document. TODOs: - [ ] now that new governance is adopted, set a deadline for current maintainer team members to volunteer for steering council. Once steering...

giving credit to translators

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I realized today that our Transifex workflow makes it so that all the credit (commit authorship) for translations goes to the transifex integration bot and the autofix CI bot. I...

Fix custom sort

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closes #1389 I *think* no docs update is needed because now things work the way the docs describe them, but feel free to request changes / push commits if you...

custom within-subsection sorting doesn't work as documented

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The [example in the docs](https://sphinx-gallery.github.io/stable/configuration.html#custom-sort-keys) of using `FunctionSortKey`: ```py "minigallery_sort_order": FunctionSortKey(lambda filename: filename[:10]) ``` is guaranteed not to work, because non-string values are tested with `inspect.isclass()` wihtin the `_get_class` helper...