Hi everybody. Long and general mail coming on. TL;DR version: do we want to plan for the future?
Today I read this blog post on the scope of open source projects: http://brianegranger.com/?p=249 It made me dig up an old mail draft I wrote after reading a post by Gael: http://www.slideshare.net/eleddy/i-wish-i-knew-how-to-quit-you I realized then that we don't really make any plans. Sometimes people (mostly me) tag some issues to certain releases but that's it. There is some vague idea, pushed mainly by Gaël that we want to do a 1.0 in the not-so-far future, but there is no list of features that we want (I created a milestone and assigned random bits, not sure if any one noticed). I wanted to ask: should we try to make plans? We get a lot of PRs and have more and more contributors and I think it might be nice if we had some form of road map to give everything a bit more direction. I know that people mostly contribute algorithms they are using in research, and that is great, because that makes for high-quality code. I am not sure, though, for how long the "hey look, I coded this cool estimator which I used in my latest paper" strategy is feasible. There are also several classes of algorithms that we haven't really touched on that might be in the scope and might "creep" into sklearn without really any discussion. I'm thinking mainly about ranking, collaborative filtering, structured prediction (in particular sequences), metric learning, graphical models (and some more). Maybe the project is still small enough that our current approach might work, but with more and more new contributors, I thought it might be good to think a little bit about where we want to go. Cheers, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
