A big thanks for 0.3!

Stéfan van der Walt stefan at sun.ac.za
Mon Oct 10 16:12:20 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Brian Holt <bdholt1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just looking
> through http://scikits-image.org/docs/0.3/contribute.html to find out what
> else is in the pipeline and it seems like many of the tasks can already be
> ticked off.
>
> What are the next priorities for this project?

I see two main target audiences for the scikit: educators and
researchers (maybe industry practitioners form a third group, but
they've been quiet on the list so far!).

For education, we need to write more narrative documentation, build
more examples, and implement the algorithms that you'll find in a
standard image processing book, such as Gonzales &Woods.

For research, we want new and exciting algorithms, and great utilities
for augmenting results (e.g. the drawing library just started).
Examples of algorithms would include graph cut segmentation,
structural similarity measures, star features, etc.

On a more mundane front, we need to deal with the renaming and with
updating pull requests accordingly (the rename will probably break all
pending PRs?).  While the scikit can work under Python 3, I was sloppy
in not testing in under 3 before the release, so there are some minor
tweaks necessary to make the test suite pass.

I would love to hear any other suggestions... this is a community
effort, so in the end we all get to decide which way to go.

Cheers
Stéfan



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