On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 at 18:07, Rushabh Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > > On another note: Maybe we can consider removing the patch requirement > (atleast 1 open PR or merged PR) from GSoC. We should only select candidates > with solid proposals. Someone who can actually write a good proposal, > documenting their design, implementation details, links to relevant parts of > the code etc says a lot more than someone who got an easy PR merged.
The proposals are all going to be written with AI as well. OpenAI has just released an AI powered version of Overleaf: https://openai.com/prism/ I'm pretty sure you can just go there and prompt it to write the whole proposal. I actually think that the opposite is the case now that we cannot trust the proposals and the PRs are the only reasonable way of discriminating between the candidates. The way that this has always worked though is that people have coached the applicants to be able to produce some reasonable PRs. Then some GSOC applicants would have some nontrivial PRs merged by the time GSOC applications are being ranked and then that gives some confidence that they would be able to do the project. It has been getting worse in recent years and it was already bad last year but the problem is that there are just too many different people with low quality PRs (whether AI or not) where the amount of coaching that would be needed to turn them into good PRs would be unmanageable. If we don't do that though then none of the candidates can start out with basic PRs and then improve to the point of making good/nontrivial PRs and then be ready to do a GSOC project. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxS6AGFM%2BBa%2BFzAUNAoZtt1uSZZ0obyewSa6GC-RWBbPxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
