It doesn't have to be, although it's not a bad idea in general because you'll need to become familiar with that part of the code anyway if you get accepted.
We place a significant weighting on the quality of the pull requests when reviewing applications. The PRs are the primary way that applicants demonstrate their coding ability to us. It's not really about "familiarity with the SymPy codebase". We expect that applicants won't be very familiar with SymPy yet. Rather, it is more about how you are able to work your way through the challenges that arise when implementing something or fixing a bug. If your only PR is something that is very trivial, that doesn't really demonstrate your coding skills to us very well. Aaron Meurer On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:56 PM Shivam Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > Do the PRs have to specific to our proposed project? Or they can by any > minor PR just to demonstrate our familiarity with SymPy codebase? > > - Shivam > On Monday, 27 March, 2023 at 2:48:23 pm UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> This is a reminder that the GSoC application deadline is April 4, >> which is just over a week away. >> >> Also remember if you plan to submit an application that we require >> that all applications submit a pull request to the SymPy repository. >> Your pull request should be submitted by the deadline, and your >> application should list all the PRs you have submitted. >> >> Aaron Meurer >> > -- > 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/ccfc2e19-bee8-44ce-b834-b0f50c9af3fbn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ccfc2e19-bee8-44ce-b834-b0f50c9af3fbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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%3D6JTf61VcxCqiNB5-fXYSNSKV%3DYrt18z%3D2nQ5UNq9qTQug%40mail.gmail.com.
