scikits-image 0.4 release

[Emmanuelle Gouillart]

Very cool :-). I was very excited to talk about the new release during my
talk at Scipy India (a few hours ago), thanks for the opportunity to
advertise the release!

During questions, I was asked if during the sprint, it would be possible
to contribute to the Debian/Ubuntu packaging. I don't know the status of
the packaging, and if something could be done to help with the packaging.
What should I answer to the person who asked about packaging?

Cheers,
Emmanuelle 

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:42:41PM -0800, St�fan van der Walt wrote:
> Announcement: scikits-image 0.4
> ===============================

> We're happy to announce the 0.4 release of scikits-image, an image processing
> toolbox for SciPy.

> Please visit our examples gallery to see what we've been up to:

>    http://scikits-image.org/docs/0.3/auto_examples/

> Note that, in this release, we renamed the module from ``scikits.image`` to
> ``skimage``, to work around name space conflicts with other scikits (similarly,
> the machine learning scikit is now imported as ``sklearn``).

> A big shout-out also to everyone currently at SciPy India; have fun, and
> remember to join the scikits-image sprint!

> This release runs under all major operating systems where Python (>=2.6 or
> 3.x), NumPy and SciPy can be installed.

> For more information, visit our website

>   http://scikits-image.org

> New Features
> ------------
> - Module rename from ``scikits.image`` to ``skimage``
> - Contour finding
> - Grey-level co-occurrence matrices
> - Skeletonization and medial axis transform
> - Convex hull images
> - New test data sets
> - GDAL I/O plugin

> ... as well as some bug fixes.

> Contributors to this release
> ----------------------------
> * Andreas Mueller
> * Christopher Gohlke
> * Emmanuelle Gouillart
> * Neil Yager
> * Nelle Varoquaux
> * Riaan van den Dool
> * Stefan van der Walt
> * Thouis (Ray) Jones
> * Tony S Yu
> * Zachary Pincus