Hi Vlad. I would gladly mentor a maintenance-oriented project. I feel Gael could probably do this better, as he has more experience, but I guess he doesn't have to much time on his hands.
There is still a lot to do and we should come up with a list of issues to address, preferably by consensus ;) I'm glad you consider this as a project :) Cheers, Andy On 03/06/2012 07:41 PM, Vlad Niculae wrote: > Hello everybody, > > The two project ideas with Olivier's name are very interesting to me. Notably > the NMF project could also include a rehaul of the current implementation, a > cython non-negative least squares solver, addition of KL divergence loss, and > as much love as possible for sparse matrices. > > I would also like to propose a more maintenance-oriented project, such as was > suggested in the last discussion on this topic, earlier this year, given my > familiarity with the codebase. Maybe Andy would like to mentor such a > project? Given that he's been doing so much good work on quality lately, > maybe I could take the load off his shoulders this summer. I remember Gael > saying that he'd rather be moving towards scikit-learn 1.0 than add more > features that take as away. I feel that we are in a pretty solid position and > I agree with this idea. > > > WDYT? > > Vlad > > On Mar 6, 2012, at 20:17 , Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > >> Hi team, >> >> First of all, I need to apologize for not having been responsive in the >> discussions concerning the 2012 edition of the GSOC. I am a bit >> overcomitted, and the discussions were going well, so I didn't feel that >> I could add something terribly useful to them. >> >> The ground-to-earth organization for the GSOC is starting to set up. In >> particular, we are planning to participate in the GSOC under the umbrella >> of the PSF. I have informal agreement for this. There will be a meeting >> at PyCon this weekend about the GSOC. It would be great if those of the >> team who are there could drop by. >> >> This year, I think that we can ramp up a bit the participation on our >> side. Last year I wasn't sure that our best practices were set enough, >> and that we had enough potential mentors to take more than one student. >> This year I hope that if we get enough enthusiasm and good >> applications, we can apply for more. >> >> On the mentor side, I'd like people to start thinking if they can be >> mentors or backup mentors. I won't give names, but I think that we have a >> good number of people that have the skills to be mentors. Just keep in >> mind if you volunteer to be a mentor that it does take some time. If you >> have a good student, it is worth the effort: you will gain a good >> collaborator in the long run, in addition to the code contributions that >> the project will directly bring to the scikit. >> >> If any potential students is hanging around on the mailing list, it would >> be good if they could start thinking of the project they want to submit. >> A few ideas have been flying around. Some of them are written down on the >> wiki: >> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/A-list-of-topics-for-a-google-summer-of-code-%28gsoc%29-2012 >> it is editable by everybody and can serve as a way to keep track of >> discussions. Students are also free to propose their projects. The >> guideline are that the projects should be sizable contributions that they >> believe they can bring to success in a summer's work, and that it should >> be of general interest to the community. As a reminder, a GSOC is a full >> time project. This means that under the rules of the GSOC you cannot have >> another job, or a summer project. This does include PhD programs: unless >> you can put your PhD program on pause for a summer, you are unfortunately >> not eligible for GSOC (that's a pity, I know). >> >> Looking forward to an exciting summer, hopefully with new collaborations! >> >> Gaël >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. 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