Sounds good.  I have added a few lines to this effect to the development 
workflow page.

On Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:56:28 AM UTC-7, Rathmann wrote:
>
> Now that we are on a single code base, I have a few questions on how
> best to write/test code going forward.  In particular, do we have a
> convention on how to handle name changes?
>
> One approach might be to have Sympy's code base reflect one of Python
> 2/3s names/syntax, and adjust as best we can for the other version via
> core/compatability.  I am assuming that is *not* how we are going,
> since we currently have print as a function (hard to avoid that) and
> lots of usage of (version 2) xrange.
>
> My particular issue is with zip (actually izip_longest).  One of my
> test functions depends for correctness on getting the iterator version
> of the zip function.  Since what I really need is izip_longest, I have
> tentatively defined, in compatability, zip_longest, as being the
> either izip_longest or zip_longest as needed.  
>
> This works fine, but it would be nice to have some sort of consensus
> guideline on how to handle these going forward.  For example, do we
> have a policy against adding bloat to core/compatibility unless
> absolutely necessary?
>                                             
> Thanks.
>

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