On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Charles R Harris > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I thought I'd raise this topic just to get some ideas out there. At the >> moment I see two areas that I'd like to see addressed. >> >> Documentation editor. This would involve looking at the generated >> documentation and it's organization/coverage as well such things as style >> and maybe reviewing stuff on the documentation site. This would be more >> technical writing than coding. >> Test coverage. There are a lot of areas of numpy that are not well tested >> as well as some tests that are still doc tests and should probably be >> updated. This is a substantial amount of work and would require some >> familiarity with numpy as well as a willingness to ping developers for >> clarification of some topics. >> >> Thoughts? > > First thought: very useful, but probably not GSOC topics by themselves. > > For a very good student, I'd think topics like implementing NA bit masks or > improved user-defined dtypes would be interesting. In SciPy there's also a > lot to do, and that's probably a better project for students who prefer to > work in Python. > > Thanks for bringing this up. Last year we missed the boat, it would be good > to get one or more slots this year. > > Ralf > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
Along with test coverage, have any of you considered any systematic monitoring of NumPy performance? With all of the extensive refactoring / work on the internals, it would be useful to keep an eye on things in case of any performance regressions. I mention this because I started a little prototype project (http://github.com/wesm/vbench) for doing exactly that for my own development purposes-- it's already proved extremely useful. Anyway, just a thought. I'm sure a motivated student could spend a whole summer writing unit tests for NumPy and nothing else. - Wes _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
