This has been debated in a variety of emails, issues, pull requests, chats, and in person over the years. It'd take some time to collect all of those instances for concise review. There is no one authoritative thread that reached consensus that I know of. The email from Aaron that I quoted earlier is the first time it was written down and there were no complaints on that thread at that time. Thus, it's been the underlying written guideline now for > 2 years. I'm not sure what has caused it but we've recently had a resurgence from reviewers requiring contributors to rebase their PRs (and also to split PRs).
And yes, there are many differences in the projects, and my proposal is speculation, although we do have some data on contributor comparison among the main SciPy projects. This issue was brought up at the SymPy BoF at SciPy because one of the complaints we got during the BoF was from a user that gave up because he was requested to rebase and he ended up in a git hole. He hasn't contributed since. Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Jason Moore <moorepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, we've had it in wiki for a while and I quoted a previous email that > > stated it. > > Yes, sorry not to be clear - I was really wondering out loud whether > this was something that was debated fully at the time, I was not at > all questioning whether it was good policy or even if it was standard > sympy policy. > > > I'd say we are different that numpy and scipy in that sense. This is may > be > > one of the reasons we have more contributors with > ~10 commits than > those > > projects have. > > It might be - but there are so many differences between these > projects, it's hard to be sure. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > 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 sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH6Pt5rt1oSX%2BNasgN79OyQK%3Dc41M8M9NdbsOBURTgvMnEo-kw%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AgMW4BjD4EO4PuoYwW8pXsKtU02A3J%2Bbo9G%2BffB2xoGrg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
