I am +1 on a plan, since it's helpful for newbies like myself in orienting themselves, and helps focus developer effort.
That said, the breadth of this project is pretty amazing, and it's probably a good idea to keep classifiers which are up-and-coming in academia available. I guess I'm voting for both. :) Andrew On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Andreas Mueller <amuel...@ais.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > 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 -- Andrew Winterman 714 362 6823 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
