Hi Aaron and Ondrej, Many thanks for replying so quickly!
On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 8:19:04 PM UTC+1, ondrej wrote: > > 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. > > Thank you! I will definitely think about this, depending on how things develop :) > 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. > Thanks for pointing this out, I will also have a more thorough look there once my exams finish :) > 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 sy...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > 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/dff80587-d950-488a-923d-c8c72753cc9a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
