Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Hello message

2015-08-17 Thread Jaret Flores
It might be worth adding that to a section on the Contributing page. Also, the Contributing code section in the Contributing document also that says To avoid duplicating working, it is highly advised you contact... which is what caused me to post here as well. Perhaps update that to direct

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] positive / nonnegative least angle regression estimators

2015-08-17 Thread Joel Nothman
Please make a pull request. This looks like a small and useful change, consistent with Lasso's support of non-negativity. On 18 August 2015 at 14:30, Michael Graber michigra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I extended the lars_path, Lars and LarsLasso estimators in the scikit-learn

[Scikit-learn-general] positive / nonnegative least angle regression estimators

2015-08-17 Thread Michael Graber
Dear all, I extended the lars_path, Lars and LarsLasso estimators in the scikit-learn least_angle.py module with the possibility to restrict coefficients to be 0 using the method described in the original paper by Efron et al, 2004, chapter 3.4. (

[Scikit-learn-general] Hello message

2015-08-17 Thread Shashank Gupta
Dear all, This is Shashank. I am master's student at IIIT Hyderabad, was previously student at BITS Pilani. I want to contribute to Scikit-learn. How should I start. Can you give me some pointers. Regards, Shashank --

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Hello message

2015-08-17 Thread Jaret Flores
Shashank, I am not one of the maintainers, but recently started looking into the scikit-learn code myself. Certainly read the contributing documentation http://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/index.html which will tell you how to get the project setup and various guidelines. Once you are

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Hello message

2015-08-17 Thread Andreas Mueller
Thanks Jaret, that is exactly right. Definitely start with easy issues. I was just thinking about adding this to the FAQ, then I saw that past-me already did: http://scikit-learn.org/dev/faq.html#how-can-i-contribute-to-scikit-learn Is this not easy enough to find? On 8/17/2015 3:59 PM,