[SciPy-Dev] An inconsistency in scipy.optimize.minimize

[Paul Hobson]

Hey Shawn,

The main github repo has a document outlining how to most effectively
contribute to the project. You can find that here:
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/HACKING.rst.txt

Good luck!
-paul


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry about digging this out again... As well as not knowing how to
> contribute my effort to SciPy. Sorry about being ignorant in how to
> participate in an open-source project, but what is the suggested step
> that I should do next? Should I:
>
> 1) Report this issue on github
>
> 2) Fix the code
>
> I could do both, but the code would be only on my personal machine and
> not thoroughly tested... Could anyone please help and get me started
> on that?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -Shawn
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu> wrote:
> > Aaron,
> >
> > Thanks for confirming! I agree that epsilon is better, as in the
> > following functions "epsilon" instead of "eps" are used:
> >
> > scipy.optimize.fmin_cg
> > scipy.optimize.fmin_ncg
> > scipy.optimize.fmin_tnc
> > scipy.optimize.fmin_bfgs
> > scipy.optimize.fmin_l_bfgs_b
> >
> >
> > -Shawn
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Aaron Webster <awebster at falsecolour.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu>
> wrote:
> >>> However, by digging into the code, I realize that this value's name is
> >>> called "eps" instead of "epsilon" in the minimize wrapper. That is to
> >>> say,
> >>
> >> "epsilon" seems to be the consistent naming convention; I suggest it
> >> be changed to that.
> >>
> >> Good observation.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Aaron Webster
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>
>
> --
> Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang
> Gerling Research Lab
> University of Virginia
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