On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> wrote:

Hi Aman

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:52 AM, AMAN singh <ug201310004@iitj.ac.in> wrote:
> Please tell me whether I am on right track or not. If you can suggest me
> some resources which will be helpful to me in understanding the project, I
> would be highly obliged. Also, I would like to know that how much part of
> ndimage is to be ported under this project since it is a big module.
> Kindly provide me some suggestions and guide me through this.

Hi Aman, the idea is to port the whole module. I think you should make a plan for that. We are aware that it's a large job, and whether or not it's feasible to complete all of ndimage within one GSoC depends on how fast you will go. Compared to porting scipy.cluster last year I'd guess that ndimage is >2x more work. However, Richard last year implemented new features in addition to completing the port, so for a fast student I expect it to be possible to complete the whole module. I would expect the main challenge to be to make the Cython version (close to) as fast as the current C code.

Thanks for your interest in GSoC 2015! Please have a look at the
issues for scikit-image, and try and submit a few PRs so that we can
work together and get to know you a bit better.

@all: it's maybe good to know that Aman has already submitted 5 PRs to Scipy (4 small ones merged, 1 larger one for which the bottleneck is on our side): https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abewithaman+is%3Aclosed

@Aman: the majority of expertise and mentoring power will likely come from the scikit-image devs, so it would be good to submit a few scikit-image PRs as Stefan says. Feel free to ping me - I read the scikit-image mailing list but not Github activity.

Cheers,

Ralf