On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Stefano <stefano.k.sanfili...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've been a enthusiast Python programmer for 3 years now, and I've hailed > Cython project with great interest. Now, I'm willing to contribute. I've would > say I'm an quite an expert Python programmer and I've some-year-long > experience with C, modern C++ and its cousin Java. Sidenote, I'm a student at > Politecnico di Milano, Italy. > > Everything started with trying to speed up a Mandelbrot generator, which > heavily relies on complex numbers. Eventually I've found in "Mini Projects (or > something similar)" wiki that C99 `complex' is still to be implemented. So, I > decide to make a step further and try to hop into development.
As Lisandro mentioned, complex numbers have been implemented, but there's still plenty to do :). > I've would be grateful if a core developer could point me in the right > direction concerning coding style, repositories, deadlines (I'm still a > student, so I may have 'offline' days this winter) and other issues. Our process is pretty simple. Our code is up at https://github.com/cython/ and we prefer contributions via pull requests; the documentation is in the same repository. As for coding guildelines, we try to follow http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ and support Python 2.4+. Everyone here is working on Cython on the side (with, I suppose, the exception of Google Summer of Code contributors) so development is done in a pretty informal as-you-have-the-time manner. For substantially new features, a Cython Enhancement Proposal http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements is usually in order. > I may > start with something easy (`complex' implementation, or command line API > restructuration), and I'd like someone from the team to discuss what I'll be > implementing (ok, just for the first days), just to see if "I'm doing it > right" (TM) and, mostly, if I'm the right man or I'm just making you loose > your time. We'll try to answer your questions, but the more specific the better. You might also want to play around with "cython -a" and the options in Cython/Compiler/DebugFlags.py to find your way around the codebase. There is also some good documentation on the wiki, but as has been pointed out, there's some really old stuff there as well. (There's a lot of non-coding work to be done too :-). Everyone scratches their own itch, but all of us here would agree that this is a pretty fun one. > You can see an example of what I did in the past here: > http://code.google.com/p/libsmth/ - for instance (still a WIP). > > I really appreciate your work :) Thanks. - Robert _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
