I am sure there are many people disappointed by the idea that we may not run with GSoC this year. On the one hand, we could – as Gaël has suggested – really benefit from having more people involved in the maintenance of scikit-learn, and GSoC provides a potential pathway for newcomers. On the other hand, we have such an enormous quantity of PRs to review and decide upon already, that code is far from the main thing we are lacking in contribution; and, with notable exceptions, the active / long-term core devs have overwhelmingly not come in through the GSoC pathway.
I also think we are at a stage of maturity where it is becoming relatively hard to design projects that are clearly beneficial, not going to create future maintenance burden, and can be performed by someone relatively new to developing scikit-learn. But as others have suggested on this list, there may be projects within the scikit-learn ecosystem that *do* need code and can clearly defined projects. I think if there were a clearly scoped project and a promising student, we would find mentor availability. But the core devs have not had capacity to design a project within the above constraints, and no student has come forward with a clear proposition. Potential students must recognise that GSoC funding assumes, essentially, in-kind contributions from mentors in time. Since we're mostly relying here on volunteers, how readily we can afford that contribution needs to be rationalised. On 19 February 2017 at 12:45, Jacob Schreiber <jmschreibe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we have de facto decided not to participate by not having someone > step up by now and organize it like Raghav did last year. > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Olivier Grisel <olivier.gri...@ensta.org > > wrote: > >> Personally I don't feel like mentoring this year. I would really like >> to focus my scikit-learn time on finishing the joblib process >> refactoring with Thomas Moreau and the binning / thread-based >> parallelization of boosted trees with Guillaume and Raghav. >> >> -- >> Olivier >> _______________________________________________ >> scikit-learn mailing list >> scikit-learn@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn >> > > > _______________________________________________ > scikit-learn mailing list > scikit-learn@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn > >
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