[Numpy-discussion] GSoD 2021 - Statement of Interest

Tue May 4 16:35:53 EDT 2021

Hello, Mahesh

Yes, the timeline looks fine.

Cheers,

Melissa

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 2:08 PM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there Melissa,
>
> Thank You for your valuable suggestion.Actually , I am planning for a
> high-impact work. I have already started reading the User-Guide and working
> out small projects using NumPy to understand it further, to prepare an
> in-depth proposal, which will include changes which I mentioned in my brief
> proposal, reorganizing content, addressing issues in the GitHub tracker and
> all. One doubt from my side is regarding the timeline. Currently I am
> planning to prepare the proposal with the GSoD Timeline that is from June
> 16 2021 and ends on November 16th 2021 with four evaluation phases ,
> Is there any specific timeline from the community or Am I free to follow
> the same?
>
> And  as of now, I am planning to set an order in which the tasks needed to
> be done , which I will share in the first draft of my proposal which I will
> submit by this week, later changes can be done as per suggestions from the
> mentors and community.
>
> Thank You
> Mahesh
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 7:05 PM Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, Mahesh
>>
>> While you work on this, it may be interesting to keep in mind that we are
>> looking for high-impact work that can be done in the timeframe of the GSoD
>> program - examples would be reorganizing content in a section of the
>> documentation, creating new complete document pages on some subject or
>> concept. It may be worth familiarizing yourself with the documentation (I
>> won't suggest reading all of it as it's huge!) to get an idea for the
>> different sections. One idea would be to focus on the user guide, which
>> contains several sub-pages, and check for improvements that can be done
>> there.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Melissa
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 9:28 AM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> The current documentation of NumPy is really good but a bit more
>>> improvement can be made to it, which is the prime objective of my project.
>>> The improvements which I mentioned in my brief proposal are strategies that
>>> can be applied to every documentation to make it better.
>>>
>>> Apart from general improvements most the documentation related issues in
>>> the NumPy's GitHub issue tracker
>>> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+doc+label%3A%2204+-+Documentation%22> will
>>> be addressed. . Some needs more technical information and help from the
>>> community. Some are due to the lack of visual aids. Most of them will be
>>> addressed and improvements will be made such that similar issues will not
>>> be generated in future.
>>> Rearranging of sections in the User Guide
>>> <https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/absolute_beginners.html> can be done
>>> after further discussions
>>>
>>> Some examples regarding the need of restructuring and duplication are
>>> given in the attached document. Apologies in advance if my observations are
>>> inaccurate or nitpicks. The given doc is just a very brief one. An in-depth
>>> proposal with all the planned changes along with solutions to close as many
>>> issues in the tracker will be prepared. I am getting familiar with the
>>> community and NumPy.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 9:54 PM Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, Mahesh
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your proposal. One thing I would say is that some of the
>>>> things you are suggesting are already there - for example, the How-tos and
>>>> Explanations section - but I agree they can be improved!
>>>>
>>>> Another question I could pose is about duplication of content: can you
>>>> give examples of duplicated content that you found in the docs?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Melissa
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:33 AM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am Mahesh from India. I am interested in doing Google Season of Docs
>>>>> with NumPy on the project HIGH-LEVEL RESTRUCTURING AND END-USER FOCUS -
>>>>> NumPy
>>>>>
>>>>> I have past experience in documentation writing with WordPress and
>>>>> have completed *Google Summer of Code 2018 *with KDE. I have been an
>>>>> open source enthusiast and contributor since 2017.My past experience with
>>>>> coding ,code documentation , understanding code bases ,will help achieve
>>>>> this task without much input from your end. I have about four years
>>>>> experience working with Open-Source and currently working as a *Quality
>>>>> Assurance specialis*t . I have delivered technical talks at
>>>>> international conferences (KDE-Akademy) and was *mentor of Google
>>>>> Code-In* also. All these makes me the best candidate for the project.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am attaching a brief proposal for the work along with this mail. A
>>>>> more in-depth  A more in depth proposal with timelines , all planned
>>>>> strategies , document structures will be submitted after more discussion
>>>>> with the mentors and community.
>>>>> I am ready to start the work as soon as possible and will be able work
>>>>> 7 to 9 hours per day including weekends. I strongly wish to be part of the
>>>>> NumPy community even after the project.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope to hear from you soon
>>>>>
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>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> Mahesh S Nair
>>>>>
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