Excellent answer!
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Valeriia Gladkova < valeriia.gladk...@gmail.com> wrote: > While a lot of issues have people who start working on them, not all of > them would be able to finish work. If you find an issue where there's been > some discussion in the past but no one posted anything recently, chances > are no one's working on it anymore so give it a go. Even if someone does > come along and finds the solution before you, the experience of trying to > figure it out and then seeing how someone else dealt with it can be > valuable. As for making progress, the first bug can take a while, don't be > discouraged by it. Tinker with the code a bit, comment out lines, output > things in random places (e.g. what exactly does function A pass to function > B, do we ever enter this loop, etc.) - eventually you'll get the idea of > what bits do what and work out where things go wrong. And if you have a > concrete question, you can ask on the gitter channel. > > On Wednesday, 15 March 2017 23:54:35 UTC+3, shei...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I'm trying to get involved with SymPy, but I'm having trouble figuring >> out where to start. I've already read the tutorial and development workflow >> pages, forked SymPy in Github, and cloned the code to my machine, and next >> I would like to work on fixing a bug or making a patch. However, when I >> looked on the issues/Easy To Fix page, https://github.com/sympy/sympy >> /issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Easy+to+Fix%22, all of the >> issues I could find already had someone working on them. Additionally, even >> when I looked at the code I had trouble understanding how it worked and how >> to make progress on fixing the bug. >> >> Could someone please lead me to a problem that hasn't already been fixed? >> Also, do you have any tips for becoming more comfortable with the SymPy >> code? >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/sympy/c3a6f5a1-1192-4a50-85c1-8076c319603f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/c3a6f5a1-1192-4a50-85c1-8076c319603f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AicM%3D9oXbDJVpdLDwr7xgxm5srB%2B%3DknAdL09GqXWJ7U2g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
