[SciPy-User] Contributing to SciPy was Re: Least-squares fittings with bounds: why is scipy not up to the task?

Scott Sinclair scott.sinclair.za at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 03:58:34 EDT 2012


On 14 March 2012 09:21, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Scott Sinclair
> <scott.sinclair.za at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 13 March 2012 16:47, denis <denis-bz-gg at t-online.de> wrote:
>> > 2) there are quite a few sites to put up recipes
>> >    but 100 unsorted recipes do not make a cookbook
>> >    even with a snazzy cover.
>> >    Sure user feedback, comments, weeding, organizing are important
>> >    but weeding and sorting scipy.org/Cookbook is difficult-to-
>> > impossible,
>> >    not happening. (Don't see what copying the lot would gain us.)
>>
>> Selective copying could be useful, but that's still a lot of work and
>> it doesn't look like there are (m)any volunteers at this stage.
>
>
> Can we start by removing recipes that aren't useful anymore, links to
> external sites (there are ~40 OpenOpt / FuncDesigner links for example) and
> the list of all pages? That would cut down the Cookbook page to a more
> manageable size immediately.

There's also quite a lot related to Matplotlib, MayaVi etc. which
might have a better home with those projects.

Cheers,
Scott



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