skimage is marked for autoremoval from testing
Stefan van der Walt
stefanv at berkeley.edu
Sat Aug 15 18:19:46 EDT 2015
Hi Josh
On 2015-08-15 09:25:33, Josh Warner <silvertrumpet999 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Three potential solutions come to mind:
>
> - Remove `lena` from the package, raising an error informing
> the user the image is not free and directing them to
> `astronaut`. - Simply alias all queries for `lena` to
> `astronaut`, with a warning. - Instead of loading from disk,
> have `imread` obtain this image from a permalinked
> URL. Ideally an aliased one we can redirect if a host
> dies. We could have a couple fallback URLs, too. Biggest
> question is what to do if no internet connection is
> available.
>
> I favor the first or third solutions.
I am in favor of option 1. I think option 3 still will allow our
users to accidentally use copyrighted imagery, while our policy is
that all images are freely redistributable.
The problem is that Lena was used to generate a whole bunch of
tests results in Matlab, stored as .npy files. I no longer have
access to the script that generated those. Looking at those tests
(mostly in the morphology submodule), I think it would be better
if we could re-engineer the tests to look at image properties,
rather than to compare them pixel-for-pixel to MATLAB results.
Doing that will require some work.
Stéfan
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