Contributing

Great, you are interesting in contributing to the package. Please announce your interest on our mailing list so we can find you something to work on.

To get acquainted with the code base, you can check out our issue tracker for some immediate and clearly defined tasks. For more involved contributions, please see our roadmap below. Feel free to set up your development infrastructure using our Amazon Machine Image or Chef cookbook.

Roadmap

We aim for improvements to respy in three domains: Economics, Software Engineering, and Numerical Methods.

Economics

• support the full model of Keane and Wolpin (1997)

Software Engineering

• explore Autotools as a new build system
• research the hypothesis package to replace the hand-crafted property-based testing routines

Numerical Methods

• link the package to optimization toolkits such as TAO or HOPSPACK
• implement additional integration strategies following Skrainka and Judd (2011)