[Numpy-discussion] GSOC

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I thought I'd raise this topic just to get some ideas out there. At the
> moment I see two areas that I'd like to see addressed.
>
>
>    1. Documentation editor. This would involve looking at the generated
>    documentation and it's organization/coverage as well such things as style
>    and maybe reviewing stuff on the documentation site. This would be more
>    technical writing than coding.
>    2. Test coverage. There are a lot of areas of numpy that are not well
>    tested as well as some tests that are still doc tests and should probably
>    be updated. This is a substantial amount of work and would require some
>    familiarity with numpy as well as a willingness to ping developers for
>    clarification of some topics.
>
> Thoughts?
>
First thought: very useful, but probably not GSOC topics by themselves.

For a very good student, I'd think topics like implementing NA bit masks or
improved user-defined dtypes would be interesting. In SciPy there's also a
lot to do, and that's probably a better project for students who prefer to
work in Python.

Thanks for bringing this up. Last year we missed the boat, it would be good
to get one or more slots this year.

Ralf
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