Hi Sebastien ! Thanks for your support ! . The main reason i decided to jump into this was to gain field experience , so I guess comitting mistakes like this one is part of my own learning journey. But hopefully , I am pretty sure I am among good teachers. I just gotta use a litttle bit more of common sense myself.
Leandro A. Pezzente On martes, 14 de febrero de 2012 at 3:26 AM, Sébastien Brisard wrote:Leandro, you should certainly not feel so bad. Trying to speed up some of the already implemented algorithms is a noble task; it's true that benchmarking is sometimes tricky [1]. You seem to be bursting with ideas about new developments for Commons-Math. These new developments would certainly benefit the whole community of users. You also seem to be very (very, very) enthusiastic, which is great! However, enthusiasm should not be confused with haste! To cite but one example. My first contribution to CM was iterative linear solvers. Before the first line of code was actually committed, several months of discussion elapsed. That could seem frustrating at first, but it was in fact very, very exciting, and instructive for me. I learned a lot (and still do) from those discussions. These long discussions also ensured that everyone kind of agreed about the API design, which improved a lot in the course of a few months. To close this message, please allow me to pass over to you the advice I recieved when I joined: start with small, simple patches. As your knowledge of the library and the CM practices, you will also gain confidence, and will be able to send more complex patches. I am sure we are all looking forward to reading one of yours. Good luck for that, and a warm welcome! Sébastien [1] Part 1 of this paper http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-benchmark1/index.html is quite good (part 2 is not so instructive). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
