Re: New Contributor

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 21 March 2013 02:57, Kushal Khandelwal <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am a third year undergraduate student from India currently
> pursuing Electronics and Instrumentation. I would like to help
> develop octave and mostly likely to take part in GSOC 2013 with
> Octave.

Hello, welcome.

> I have downloaded the source code ( development ) from the Mercurial
> Repos and have successfully build it.

Good job, this is already an important first milestone.

> I really liked some ideas under Numerical and Infrastructure tabs
> and would love to work on them. Also if there would be any Image
> processing related enhancements that can be implemented I would love
> to work on them.

We actually recently added two ideas related to image processing:

    
http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Improvements_to_n-dimensional_image_processing
    
http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Color_management_functions_in_image_package

In addition, someone suggested implementing more image processing
filters like deconvwnr.

> While building the code and running tests I found that around 300
> scripts didn't have tests for them. I think I can start contributing
> by writing some tests.

This is a great to start contributing. The files that are missing
tests are the ones that we couldn't easily tackle ourselves. You'll
have to carefully understand what these functions are doing before you
can write a test for them.

> Any other suggestions from the community ?

You could also try tackling our open bugs:

    https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

I can't think of an easy bug for right now, but browse around to see
if something catches your interest.

- Jordi G. H.