On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Tim Cera <tim@cerazone.net> wrote:

This is a fantastic document. Thanks! The only thing that occurred to me that was missing was a section on licensing issues.

Thanks Tim, that's a very good point. I added some info on licensing issues and a link to http://www.scipy.org/License_Compatibility Ralf

On Apr 14, 2012 4:57 AM, "Ralf Gommers" <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com> wrote:

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Hi all,

It has been pointed out by a number of people that it's not so easy to get started with contributing to SciPy, and better documentation may help here. So I've written a guide for this. It would be great to get some feedback especially from people who've found it difficult to find this information before. And if you haven't contributed before but were thinking about doing so, perhaps this is a good opportunity to get started!

Pull Request: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/191 Rendered guide: https://github.com/rgommers/scipy/blob/howto-contribute/doc/HOWTO_CONTRIBUTE...

Cheers, Ralf

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thanks for this helpful document. What I think is missing is info and link to pages that explain how to get started with a dev version of scipy. Many users have a released version and have never compiled it although they could be contributors. FAQ could be, how to work with a dev version of scipy while keeping the last release to switch between both? You can find such info on the web but it might be worth centralizing them. If it already exists, please let me know and forget this message.

Good point, I think. I'm using a virtualenv for development, isolated from my system's site-packages. If you're interested, I can write a short paragraph about my setup and include it in the DOC. Cheers, Andreas. I'm

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Alexandre Gramfort < alexandre.gramfort@inria.fr> wrote:

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Good point, I think. I'm using a virtualenv for development, isolated from my system's site-packages. If you're interested, I can write a short paragraph about my setup and include it in the DOC.

that would be really useful.

Sounds good. If you could describe the virtualenv setup Andreas, and I'll add a description of using an in-place build, plus when to use which, then that should cover the basics. Ralf

Am Di 17 Apr 2012 23:39:10 CEST schrieb Ralf Gommers:

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com <mailto:ralf.gommers@googlemail.com>> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Alexandre Gramfort <alexandre.gramfort@inria.fr <mailto:alexandre.gramfort@inria.fr>> wrote:

> Good point, I think. I'm using a virtualenv for development, isolated > from my system's site-packages. If you're interested, I can write a > short paragraph about my setup and include it in the DOC.

that would be really useful.

Sounds good. If you could describe the virtualenv setup Andreas, and I'll add a description of using an in-place build, plus when to use which, then that should cover the basics.

This should also be described in http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/dev/gitwash/, but unfortunately it doesn't.

I wrote up a short tutorial about using virtualenv and placed it here: https://gist.github.com/2419961 Should I incorporate it into the gitwash docs and send a PR to numpy? Andreas.