Hi Anand, Yes, it is true that the issues labelled as "easy to fix" are not such a good source of things to work on. The problem is that whenever an issue is labelled as easy to fix if it really is easy then it quickly gets fixed. What is left then is typically the issues that are not actually as easy as they seem which is not very helpful.
My suggestion is to pick some topic or area of the codebase where you are familiar with the mathematics or that you are interested in learning about and then focus on that. Issues are generally labelled by topic and reading through issues for a particular topic label is probably the most helpful way to find something to work on. There are other ways to contribute besides just opening pull requests. For example many of the open issues are in fact already fixed and just checking if the issue still applies and commenting that it could be closed is very helpful. Also what many issues really need is for someone to investigate the problem and after that investigation the code changes might be very simple so the more useful part is the investigation rather than opening a PR. Many hopeful contributors right now just seem to be asking an AI to generate pull requests which is the least useful thing that an AI can do. I would be much more interested in seeing people use AI to figure out which issues are already fixed, which PRs are duplicates, or to actually debug something and identify the cause of a given problem. The fact that this isn't happening makes me think that AI is not really capable of it so it is good that you are actually reading the code yourself rather than just using an AI to spew out code. Oscar On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 11:37, Anand Bansal <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have intermediate knowledge of python and I am currently studing > mathematics. I want to contribute to sympy but easy-to-fix issues are very > less and old. Can someone suggest where I should start? I am currently > reading the codebase and want to get my feets wet into these easy to fix > issues. Then I will start working on harder issues > > Thank you > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/b7da9c93-d5bb-44f2-bafd-cfe49540c989n%40googlegroups.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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxReyfNx5tHmRKx94_t2k1ONH97vzegxg-Xv6s9Ff-%3DmKw%40mail.gmail.com.
