Hi Suvil, thanks for your interest in the project. I think what we need most is nightly builds for the major platforms (say latest debian/ubuntu, osx stable) as native packages and the same thing for the latest stable shogun release.
Once we have that we can always do more.. Best, Soeren On 20.03.16 15:07, Suvil Sipani wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a final year engineering student with 2.5 years of experience > working as a full stack developer. I have started learning Machine > Learning but I confess that I'm not as skilled in it as the other > applicants here. However I have worked with linux and os x quite > extensively. I am also familiary with Javascript, Java, C++, Python, Obj > C and Swift. > > I was interested in the easy installation project (and I think that I > might be able to complete it well as I'm regularly building and > deploying applications on *nix systems. I can also investigate > compilation on windows but truth be told it has been 3 years since I've > worked with windows deeply. > > I was curious about the scope of the project since it's a vast one. What > would be the expected deliverables of the project? I had be glad if the > mentors can help me trim/modify the scope which would be suitable for > GSoC period and which could be the reach goals. > > > 1. Stable and nightly binary builds for all platforms or choosing two > (linux + os x) for GSoC suffices? > 2. Stable and nightly builds using the package managers (apt-get, yum, > pip, conda, homebrew, linxubrew)? > 3. When it comes to linux, are the maintainers expecting it to work on > all linux distributions or for the GSoC period atleast on the popular > ones (debian/ubuntu, redhat/centos, fedora)? > 4. For Mac OS X, support only for the latest OS or all the way going > back to 10.6 (Snow lepoard)? > 5. Similary for windows, only for the lastest OS or all the way back to > Win 7 (or XP?) > 6. > > I've shortlisted some issues. I'd be glad if mentor's could guide which > one to work on since I don't know which one's are assigned to someone or > not. > https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/3046 > https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/3002 > https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/2720 > https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/2712 > https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/352 > > > Also, as a independent initiative, would it be good if I submit a bash > script to help ease installation on posix systems? Might help new folks > get up and running before the binary packages are available. > > > P.S. I have built ppa's before but they were only for personal use. I'd > be excited to work on building a shogun package which could be used by > the general package (and hopefully land in debian stable) > > Sorry for the long post! > > -- > Regards > Suvil
