Sometimes it is really annoying that in morning I am checking my emails there was only a lot of introductions and how to get start in gsoc,so probably a section like previously said great.
Regards, Debo On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 07:33 Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > . > -- 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/CAEb7RisMhs%3DLj1mz%2B01-qxwbpaNnd_vHiLBdqqkXXEMu%2BV-QQw%40mail.gmail.com.
