Re: Q: Low hanging fruit?

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 16, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Bill Denney wrote:

> Ben Abbott wrote:
> > On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Bill Denney wrote:
> > > Attached are three new functions.  Essentially now I'm just going  
> > > through the list of functions in matlab that are missing in octave  
> > > and writing the low hanging fruit.
> > Any chance you (or anyone else) have compiled a list of "low  
> > hanging fruit"?
> >
> > I expect there are a few individuals who would like to contribute  
> > to that effort.
> >
> > Personally, I'd be interested in writing some m-files during my  
> > spare time.
> Hi Ben,
>
> I have updated the function lists on the wiki.  They are now  
> categorized (at least roughly).  I may have gotten some wrong, so  
> anyone should feel free to adjust the categorization.  Also, please  
> anyone who finds functions that should be added or removed, do so.
>
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?MissingMatlabFunctions
>
> Feel free to start working.  They are not categorized into "low  
> hanging fruit" and harder tasks, but hopefully, you can find some  
> interesting functions there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill

Bill,

Nice work!

What are your thoughts on maintaining the list of functions?

As functions are submitted to the mail list shall we mark them as so?

As functions are committed to the mercurial archive shall be remove  
them from the list?

I'm presently occupied with a build problem using the bleeding-edge  
sources on Mac OSX (with gfortran). However, once I resolve that, or  
get sufficiently frustrated that I need a break, I'll try some  
editing, and look for a project.

Ben