Gaël and Alex have spoken well. He was distinctive among contributors in
his dedication and persistence: he basically started from nothing and
slowly, eventually become an invaluable and knowledgeable member of the
team (despite being, I think, younger and less formally qualified than most
of us);
This is really sad indeed. I did not know Raghav personally, but I got to
know the engineer in him through his work with the Scikit Learn project.
Almost every time I looked up an issue or tried to find a PR for a lacking
feature, there he was, either working on it himself or starting a
discussion
This is truly, truly sad news.
Leaving the home country you grew up in to find your way in a new language
and culture takes considerable effort, and to thrive at it takes even more
effort.
He was to be commended for that.
I think many of us knew of his enthusiasm for the project and benefited
grea
Raghav was a core contributor to scikit-learn. Venkat Raghav Rajagopalan, or
@raghavrv -as we knew him- appeared out of the blue and started contributing
early 2015. From Chennai, he was helping us make scikit-learn a better library.
As often in open source, he was working with people that he h
