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- Subject: Re: [eigen] random thoughts -- we need more Gaels
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:14:19 -0400
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2010/10/3 Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Benoit Jacob wrote:
>> Obviously we've just had the least active month or two in recent Eigen
>> history. While that can be attributed to the summer and the subsequent
>> busy back-to-school time of the year, that isn't all. We need to
>> organize to scale better, and to get more people to step up as more
>> core contributors.
>
> If the project needs more developers then the current members should focus on
> attracting fellow developers to this project. That means investing some time
> doing fundamental stuff such as making the source code readable and writing a
> decent (and in some cases, any) documentation. Or, to put it in other words,
> make the project more developer-friendly.
Further down in my original email, that's what I was saying... also
see Cyrille's reply.
> Just to point out a couple of fundamental issues which Eigen fails to address
> and therefore makes this project a bit unattractive to developers, the source
> code is practically void of any comments and there is absolutely no resource
> that presents to the potential developer a general picture of Eigen's design,
> algorithms employed, adopted patterns or even any of the development
> conventions which were adopted by this project.
yes, that's what I had in mind with "developer documentation".
Eigen already attracts a good number of occasional contributors,
what's hard is to convince people that it's their new main hobby for
the next 3 years.
Benoit
> Those issues constitute a
> massive barrier to entry that forces practically all developers to shy away
> from reading the source code, let alone invest some time contributing to this
> project.
>
> So, if the project needs more core developers then it must focus on making the
> project attractive to developers. If this is achieved then contributions will
> simply roll in with time. If not then odds are that if anyone looks into
> eigen and finds that it is missing some feature they need then, as getting up
> to speed on Eigen's code is such a massive undertaking, they will either adopt
> some other library or they will invest (or waste?) their time writing yet
> another linear algebra routine that offers support for their corner case.
>
>
> Rui Maciel
>
>
>