Assist the Ginga Project

[ejeschke]

This is an open issue for anyone interested in becoming involved in helping the Ginga project.

If you are interested in participating, please add a comment to this issue indicating what things you are interested in working on.

We are looking for individuals to work on a few select project areas, depending on skill level and interest:

Beginning-level:

• Improve and expand Ginga's unit test suite and coverage
• Improve documentation and tutorials, including via Jupyter notebooks and video voice-overs
• Improve our "native app" packaging for Mac, Unix and Windows
• Improving LineProfile and Slit plugins
• Enhance existing plugins by adding GUIs for some common tasks like configuring catalog sources, which are currently done by editing config files
• Add support for loading broken FITS files by "fingerprinting" them

Intermediate-level:

• Improve Ginga backends for web browsers (native javascript/web sockets and/or Jupyter notebooks and/or Bokeh server)
• Enhancements to "traditional" GUI backends (e.g. add support for gtk3, AGG support for python 3, improvements to Qt-based widgets)
• Graft the astropy-helpers package into Ginga
• Adding support for rough line-of-sight velocity
• Enhance existing plugins for data analysis tasks, usually featuring astropy or affiliated packages

Advanced-level:

• Implement an OpenCL module that leverages CPU and GPU resources for accelerating some common image processing operations (scaling, transformations, rotations) on numpy image arrays. Benchmark against current CPU based solutions.
• Improving IO speeds by optimizing use of astropy.fits.io/cfitsio/numpy, lazy reads, file caching hints, optimizing concurrency, etc.
• Support for Stokes

[rupak0577]

@ejeschke I am interested. Can I apply?

[rirze]

I'm really interested in working on the advanced-level topics. I am very interested in parallelizing operations. Implementing Stokes is a task I would enjoy working on as well.

[ejeschke]

@rupak0577, glad to hear your interest! I don't see why you couldn't. Go for it!

[ejeschke]

@letyrodridc, @rirze, glad to hear your interest! I'm in touch with the other astropy GSoC mentors and will be contacting you via email.

[Mar-tian]

Hi, I am interested in working on improving Ginga backends for web browsers or enhancing existing plugins by adding GUIs. I know this is really late, but I am new to open source and was having doubts about about proceeding but I really want to give it a go, could I apply?

[pllim]

Fingerprinting no longer needed.

[pllim]

This list should either be updated, or the issue closed.