Re: Asking for Guidance

Nicholas Jankowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
Message-ID <CABNpfR9D-eJp+LBe6bjLM2_Q-9cbnKMQco0V7EUPxpdip1+gQw@mail.gmail.com>
>
> I think that submitting a patch or solving a bug will be helpful to get
> more involved during the community bonding phase. If that is best thing to
> do, Can you please recommend me something to work on ? (I submitted the
> patches [1] & [2]. But, all my submissions were small patches and I think
> working on a medium one will be beneficial during the community bonding
> phase.)
> If you think doing something else right now is better, please let me know
> what to do.
>
> Definitely lean toward what your mentor would prefer, it may be there are
specific tasks/bugs/etc that would be related to your primary GSOC plan and
build familiarity in the right area. But absent a particular direction,
searching the help and bug list for 'missing function' and 'matlab
compatibility' are usually easy places to start.  There are enough of them
out there.

Being a little self serving:
- if you want to implement a triangulated multidimensional cubic spline you
could always help polish off griddata incompatibilities.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35178
- many 'simple' functions now need an 'all' option to be compatible, and
complete fix will require working on both m-code and compiled code:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58116
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