Feel free to add something to this effect at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Student-Instructions. Also I think it was discussed before to remove the step there about writing to the mailing list, but it was never done. I think it should be removed.
Aaron Meurer On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 5:58 PM Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxR0sMaGQH1fTr_qUdTZP7oFF3X7rCv3DL4tzX2NPQX6tQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6K2X4kzCxsQqz61wUJ3X%3DDEYNDiGqV5j3vHduijy2tNFA%40mail.gmail.com.
