Re: Willing to work for octave.

[Carnë Draug]

On 10 January 2014 00:51, fgnievinski <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal-2 [via Octave] <[hidden
> email]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Carnë Draug <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > I really don't think this is a good project. While the coding part may
>> > be
>> > simple, it requires to know how packages are, and what is needed by
>> > users
>> > and developers.
>>
>> What better place to start to know the Octave community? Easy to code
>> you do not dig immediately in the complexity and in the meanwhile you
>> pick up style, requirements, preferences, etc.
>> Anyways I am not trying to convince you, but I think you might be
>> biased because you have been working in Octave for long already. I
>> have found that an experience developer sometimes is the last guy you
>> want to ask for advice on where to start.
>>
> The missing functions seemed like a good idea,
> but without showing the list itself, it becomes
> a circular problem.

There's a list on the source for unimplemented. It lists a bunch of
functions from packages, and if it's not there checks for the missing
core functions [1].

I also keep a list of missing functions for the image package [2].
Other package maintainers may have something similar.

Carnë

[1] 
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/d63878346099/scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m#l530
[2] http://wiki.octave.org/Image_package