[Numpy-discussion] Contribution

[Dmitriy Rybalkin]

Thank you, Gael, I really hope that I'll improve my programming skills.
Also I have a question: Will the page with my example be deleted in
case the code is not efficient or smth else has been found to be
wrong?

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> I Dmitriy,
>
> Welcome.
>
> This is a great initiative. You'll learn by doing, and I am willing to
> bet that contributing examples can make you a good programmer.
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:47:24PM +0400, Dmitriy Rybalkin wrote:
>> I thought I could contribute to the Numpy project by
>> showing some examples of simple classification techniques (Fisher
>> discriminant function, Naive Bayes) which use numpy functions. So,
>> I'am inquiring about such contribution and some details: can I do that
>> and, if yes, then how can I submit such example or should I only
>> modify the Wiki page and request the permission?
>
> It might be interesting to stress on the corresponding wiki pages that
> these methods are available in readily coded package, such as the
> scikits.learn. The reason I stress this is that code on a wiki page tends
> to go unmaintained, while a great deal of quality assurance goes in the
> standard software packages.
>
> Gaël
> _______________________________________________
> NumPy-Discussion mailing list
> NumPy-Discussion at scipy.org
> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
>