Thanks for the clarification Aaron. I'll keep the deadlines in mind.

On Wednesday, 19 February 2014 04:50:26 UTC+5:30, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> No, this is incorrect. You must have at least one PR *pushed into the 
> codebase*. See 
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gsoc-2014-application-template. 
>
> Perhaps you are confused by the deadline mismatch. The deadline for 
> opening the PR is the same as the student application deadline (March 
> 21), and the deadline for that pull request to be merged is the same 
> as the date that Google announces accepted students (April 7). This is 
> done because actual merging depends on reviewing manpower, which is 
> sometimes lacking. 
>
> But if you start now, you should find it easy to do both before either 
> of those days. 
>
> Aaron Meurer 
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Sachin Joglekar 
> <srjogl...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > It's not necessary to have a 'successful' (by that I assume you mean a 
> > merged) PR to become a part of GSoC, though its good to have that. 
> > Basically, we need to be sure about you being good with the theory 
> behind 
> > the project (may reflect in your former work and proposal), and that you 
> > know atleast the fundamentals that are needed, like git and the basic 
> SymPy 
> > workflow (pushing commits, adding tests, PEP8 conventions etc). You 
> > obviously can learn these during the GSoC/Community bonding period, but 
> > knowing them beforehand is a sure plus. However, SymPy does require you 
> to 
> > atleast have a PR in the pipeline to be considered for selection as a 
> GSoC 
> > student. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:13:05 PM UTC+5:30, Aditya Shah wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Hi, 
> >> I am Aditya Shah and I am a third year Computer SCience student at 
> >> BITS-Pilani university. I would like to work with Sympy for GSOC. I had 
> >> previously posted on this mailing list regarding my willingness to 
> implement 
> >> the group theory module for Sympy. While scrolling through the ideas 
> list, I 
> >> came upon the idea to improve the parser for Sympy Live. I have a small 
> >> background in parsing and natural language processing, since I have 
> done 
> >> projects on those topics for my college course work. Can anyone please 
> tell 
> >> me how much work is done on parsers, and what needs to be implemented 
> >> further? 
> >> 
> >> @ProspectiveMentor: Please reply to this post so that I can discuss 
> >> further regarding the topic. 
> >> 
> >> Github profile: https://github.com/adityashah30/ 
> >> IRC: adityashah30 
> >> 
> >> Thanks, 
> >> Aditya Shah 
> > 
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