Issue Policy - sympy/sympy GitHub Wiki

The following policy is in draft state. Please give your suggestions at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/17683 to improve it further.

We have the following policy for working on issues,

1. No Assignment of Issues - Issues are not assigned to contributors because we believe that concrete work matters more than a trivial assignment. Whenever a contributor makes a PR for an issue then that PR is linked with the issue and it reflects in the Assignee section of the PR and issue tracker.

2. How to work on issues? - A contributor can comment on an issue to show their interest and to obtain the latest status. However, any one can start working an any issue whenever they want to.

3. Opening new issues - If something isn't there in the master branch or there is a bug in the code base, anyone can open an issue for the same and work on it. Though the above points still apply on the author of the issue if they are interested to work on it. In addition, make sure that the issue doesn't duplicate any existing open/closed issue.