Hi Tilman, Yes, I am available to help. You should think if you'd be interested in becoming the maintainer of the module down the road.
Ondrej On Mon, May 20, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Aaron Meurer wrote: > Hi Tilman. > > You're definitely welcome to contribute. As Oscar noted, one of the > biggest challenges for the quantum module right now is that there are > no active maintainers of it. As such, your pull requests may take a > while to review. I don't want to discourage you, but do be aware of > this. If your university project requires the code to be merged into > the repo, that may be a challenge. There has been some uncertainty in > the past about what to do about the quantum module, since there are so > few SymPy developers who can maintain it, There have been some > proposals to move it out into a separate library, but that hasn't > happened. That's not relevant for your contributions. It is for the > time being still a part of SymPy, but it's something to be aware of. > The central issue is the lack of understanding of the underlying > physics by most SymPy contributors. Unfortunately, I also fall into > this camp, so I can't comment on your proposed improvement. > > I would also suggest looking at external libraries, such as QNET > (https://github.com/mabuchilab/QNET), which uses SymPy. They may be > more developed than SymPy's quantum module. > > Another suggestion would be to use the blame functionality of > git/GitHub to find people who have contributed to the module in the > past, and ask them if they would be willing to help review your work. > I know Ondrej Certik has said that he could help review quantum work. > There may be others who are able to as well. > > 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 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/CAKgW%3D6Jh4ChRBygy77_c9yReXwHPURkUGxk2QD%2BqLEyy7Xaaeg%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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/6efe304d-fbcc-493f-a31b-2e9dd5a7eb83%40www.fastmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
