Hi all people on the SymPy mailing list, There are a lot of posts right now on the mailing list from people who are interested in contributing to SymPy and who are interested in doing a GSOC project with SymPy which is great. Many of the posts are asking the same sort of questions though so I just want to try and answer them in broad terms here.
Lots of people are asking how they can get started contributing to sympy. Quoting Chris from earlier: You can check out Introduction to contributing and Development workflow to get familiar with development. You can also check out Easy-to-fix issues on our Issue Tracker to get started with contributing. https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Introduction-to-contributing https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Development-workflow https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues Also a lot of people are suggesting that they are interested in doing some particular project for GSOC and asking how they should start with that: if you want a sensible answer to a question about a GSOC project then you need to ask a specific question. If the question is """ I'm interested in project X and I've looked into it and found issues Y and Z and it looks like a, b, c are already implemented so I want to know whether it would be reasonable to pitch a project that would complete d, e, and f """ then that's a direct question that can easily be answered by someone who knows about project X. If the question is """ I'm interested in project X. Please help me to begin working on this. """ then it is not easy for anyone to respond except by asking another question (what do you need help with?). If I see a direct question and I know the answer then I will reply. I will probably not reply to an open-ended or vague question though because there are a lot of them right now and it's not clear how to reply. I think that other people take a similar approach as well. Oscar -- 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 sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxR0sMaGQH1fTr_qUdTZP7oFF3X7rCv3DL4tzX2NPQX6tQ%40mail.gmail.com.
