Contribute to docs/tests?

[kerrie (Kerrie Clark)]

I spoke to @jeremy last week about contributing to library tests. He mentioned help was needed with doc testing, and asked me to start a thread. Hopefully this is the right place. Apologies for the delay - been out with a bad cold.

I am set up with a fastai development environment, and I am familiar with the library and doc tests. My background is in (Java) development, but I am a PyNoob. I want to learn more about Python and the library.

I am happy to help anywhere, but I am particularly interested in text, tabular data, and collab filtering applications.

Jeremy, or anybody else working in this area: please advise a good place to start.

Kerrie

[kerrie (Kerrie Clark)]

@jeremy - I sent this while you were away. I am still interested in helping out.

Kerrie

[Ralph]

Documentation improvements

I just went through a huge proofread and update of the docs of fastai and there are quite a few of them that could be improved. [need_you] If you’re looking to help a bit with fast.ai while learning a little bit more about how the library works before part 2 of the course, this is a very good thing to look into. All the functions are properly documented but in some cases, we’re seriously lacking some examples (sometimes a lot of them). it doesn’t need to be super-evolved, but just a little exa…

[kerrie (Kerrie Clark)]

Thanks @Ralph!

[jeremy (Jeremy Howard)]

Thanks Kerrie. Sorry I didn’t respond whilst away (and with a cold!) Best place to discuss docs is in the thread linked above.

[kerrie (Kerrie Clark)]

Perfect, and thank you. I hope you are feeling better!

Kerrie

[Benudek (benedikt herudek)]

For test contributions check this thread

Improving/Expanding Functional Tests

yes, thats fine. And no worries, if python looks new to you: How to contribute to fastai [Discussion] Wrt workflow: the table is a little clumsy so if you have other ideas we can adjust this process. But essentially for now just as you said, have fun !