[Numpy-discussion] Numpy Development Queries

Discussion:

ashwin.pathak

2017-02-20 18:32:35 UTC

Hello all,
I am new to this organization and wanted to start with some easy-fix
issues to get some knowledge about the soruce code. However, the issues
under easy-fix labels have already been solved or someone is at it. Can
someone help me find such issues?

Ralf Gommers

2017-02-21 05:01:55 UTC

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:32 AM, ashwin.pathak <

Post by ashwin.pathak
Hello all,
I am new to this organization and wanted to start with some easy-fix
issues to get some knowledge about the soruce code. However, the issues
under easy-fix labels have already been solved or someone is at it. Can
someone help me find such issues?

Hi Ashwin, welcome. I don't want to seem discouraging, but I do want to
explain that NumPy is significantly harder to get started on than SciPy
(which you've started on already) as a newcomer to the scientific Python
ecosystem. So I'd encourage you to spend some more time on the SciPy issues
- there are more easy-fix ones there, and the process of contributing (pull
requests, reviews, finding your way around the codebase) is similar for the
two projects.

Cheers,
Ralf

Matthew Harrigan

2017-02-22 15:52:15 UTC

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Ashwin, I don't know your background but perhaps it is similar to mine. I
use numpy extensively in my day job and starting contributing to numpy a
few months ago. From using numpy, I found some things that I thought
should be added/improved. I researched them and the associated numpy code
enough to be confident I would be capable of making the change (some of the
C code is intense). Before I got too far along, I posted an issue and got
feedback from the experts. Then I did it.

Post by Ralf Gommers
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:32 AM, ashwin.pathak <