JOSS review

[AlexanderFabisch]

related to #25 #24

Changes

• Installation
  • Changes requires to install_requires in setup.py
  • Adds optional requirements for examples, tests, and documentation
• Documentation
  • Links new API documentation in readme
  • Documentation in example plot_iris_from_sklearn.py explains why the fit is bad. The purpose of this example is to show that we can initialize from a GMM of sklearn.
  • Documentation of how to contribute to the software (in readme), mostly following https://dbader.org/blog/write-a-great-readme-for-your-github-project
• Code
  • Fixes deprecation warnings for NumPy type aliases
• JOSS paper
  • Corrects typo in paper summary: "Gausian"
  • Removes duplicate "Figure"s
  • Explain the differences to sklearn in the "Statement of Need"
  • Mention audience (robotics researchers)

TODO

• Release 1.5 at PyPi (fixes the failed unit tests)
  • Adds GMM.extract_mvn