Re: [Help-gsl] Linear least squares, webpages and the next release

[Jean-François Caron]

For everyone who said they’d like to contribute, but feel like their coding 
isn’t up to GSL standards: don’t worry!  This isn’t the Linux kernel, you won’t 
get called stupid for doing your best.  Patrick and the others are generally 
helpful and will help you to get your code included.  I think it would be a 
shame if potential improvements to GSL go undone because everyone has impostor 
syndrome.

I work almost exclusively in C++ and Python (and I’m a physicist!) and I was 
able to contribute a new 1D interpolation routine that will be in 2.0.  I 
looked at the existing code as a model and wrote the new routine accordingly.  
After submitting a patch I had to make some modifications to clean it up, but 
it was fine!

Jean-François

On Oct 26, 2015, at 08:13 , Patrick Alken <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10/24/2015 09:35 AM, John D Lamb wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 3. Are you willing to develop and contribute the features you want?
>> 
>> Yes. I’d be happy to look at redesign of the GSL containers. What’s needed?
>> 
> 
> There was a discussion on gsl-discuss some time back, see:
> 
> https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gsl-discuss/2014-q2/
> 
> Gerard may have already done some work on this, or have some ideas on a good 
> starting point, so I suggest getting in touch with him too (cc'd).
> 
> Thanks!
> Patrick
>