@rkern I have started a PR to correct the history. I’ve used your words directly—is that OK? Maybe you would consider being co-author on the SPEC and letting me know of any other context I am missing.
W.r.t. the scipy.linalg.whatever, hopefully people will use sp.linalg.whatever at least. But, also, we could write a recommendation that submodules still be imported explicitly, unless there is a conflict of sorts (numpy.linalg, networkx.linalg, etc.).