There is more information about the patch requirement in the application template https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2019-Application-Template#patch-requirement. I have added a bullet point clarifying that the patch does not need to be related to your project.
Aaron Meurer On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:18 PM Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > It does not need to be related to your project. It may help to try to > find a bug in the code related to your project, so that you can start > to familiarize yourself with it, but a pull request to any part of the > SymPy codebase will count for the requirement. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:31 PM Prashant Jha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I went trough the student instruction page where one of the points > > states that "You will need to create an account on GitHub and submit at > > least one patch to SymPy along with your application." > > Does the patch require to be related to the project idea someone > > is interested in, or it could be a random pull request like a bug fix? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/f5440ca5-1f2d-480d-8c6a-72474809bf47%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KCCqXybFkX_G_00NcF-uUzeTvDdet5URiK6NkkdEn%3DAA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
