[SciPy-Dev] Preparing project proposal for GSoC 2019

[Sourav Singh]

Hello,


>
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:26 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sourav,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:47 AM Sourav Singh <ssouravsingh12 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am writing the mail regarding project proposal for GSoC 2019.
>>>
>>> I am interested in working with SciPy for the upcoming Google Summer of
>>> Code and I am interested in either working on enhancing the randomized
>>> numerical linear algebra functionality or fixing the scipy.fftpack module.
>>>
>>> I understand that it is quite early to talk, since the organization
>>> proposals haven't started yet, but I would like to know if a project
>>> proposal can be started right now so that the proposals can be better
>>> fleshed out by the time the application period starts?
>>>
>>
>> That's the earliest start I've seen (which is a good thing)!
>>
>> I suspect that we'll have trouble finding a mentor for the randomized
>> linear algebra, however fftpack could be a good topic. Have you seen
>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11888? I suspect that by the time
>> GSoC starts, we'll have merged that into NumPy, and would like to take it
>> over for SciPy. A related topic would be to add a backend system for fft
>> implementations (pyfftw, mkl-fft).
>>
>
> And a third topic would be to make the APIs of numpy.fft and scipy.fftpack
> agree. That would be the lowest on my list because it's hard (requiring
> lots of discussion on impact on users if we deprecate things etc.), but
> it's an important one as well.
>

I am interested in adding pocketfft to scipy, which is linked in the numpy
PR. Would it be possible to combine this with the backend system project
for scipy?

Regards,

Sourav
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