[scikit-learn] New contributor to scikit-learn

[Nelle Varoquaux]

On 15 September 2016 at 14:41, Andreas Mueller <t3kcit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> Welcome Kathy and He.
>
> Gael:
> I talked with Kathy and committed to mentoring her and some of the other
> students a bit.
> Any help in reviews is obviously welcome tough ;)
>
> Kathy already worked on an easy issue and I think we'll see some interesting
> stuff soon!

This really cool!
 Just my two cents, as I am wrapping up having students contributing
to a large opensource software: it might be a good idea to create a
explicit tag for those PR/students and have at first one person and
only one person reviewing it. Our students were quite confused with
the amount of messages and the number of interlocutors on their PRs.

I am participating this semester on an initiative to have students
contribute to opensource software with Stéfan van der Walt - I'd be
curious to share tips on how it well, what to do and what to avoid.

Cheers,
N

>
> Andy
>
>
> On 09/15/2016 03:55 PM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
>>
>> That's cool. Thanks for saying hi! Welcome on board.
>>
>> Just to warn you so that you're not disappointed: the more senior members
>> of the community are drowning under commitments. Hence you'll might be
>> getting feedback slower than we would like. But if you're careful to
>> communicate well, and take on tasks that are both relevant and of the
>> right level of difficulties, you'll see that you progressively get to
>> understand this amazing community, and the code behind it! I think that
>> quite a few people who joined the project recently can testify for this.
>>
>> I'm really looking forward to seeing you on github,
>>
>> Gaël
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:35:04PM -0400, Kathleen Chen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi! I'm Kathy, a student at Penn taking an open source software
>>> development
>>>   course this semester. I wanted to send a quick "hello" to the
>>> community; a few
>>> other students and I will be making contributions to scikit-learn as part
>>> of
>>> our work in the class. :) Really looking forward to learning from &
>>> getting to
>>> know some of you in the coming months!
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