Sympy webpage repository

[Greg Vernon]

It seems to me that Sympy's webpage GitHub repository (https://github.com/sympy/sympy.github.com) could use a bit more attention from maintainers.  There are tiny MRs that are over a year old that have nary a comment on them regarding whether they'll ever be merged.  One MR from March of 2022 simply updates the copyright year from 2021 to 2022... and now, 1.5 years later it's not merged, has had zero commentary, and obviously is now out of date.

Copyright MR:  https://github.com/sympy/sympy.github.com/pull/170

Another MR from 2021 adds an exclamation mark to text on the 404 page.  I personally don't think an exclamation mark is warranted, but no maintainers have so much as commented on the MR (let alone reject it).

404 ! MR:  https://github.com/sympy/sympy.github.com/pull/164

Another MR from this May proposes adding a colon to separate clauses.  It's probably a good MR, but again... nothing

Semicolon MR: https://github.com/sympy/sympy.github.com/pull/188

And then there are MRs that are so old (2011) that they should just be closed.

Old MR: https://github.com/sympy/sympy.github.com/pull/28

Is the issue that we need more maintainers?  Who are the maintainers?

-- Greg

[Aaron Meurer]

Everyone with push access to SymPy also has access to the website
repo. I think the website tends to get ignored relative to SymPy
because it isn't as interesting to most people, and also because as
you noticed, it tends to get a lot of low quality pull requests that
don't really add much value.

There's also, unfortunately, an issue currently with the website repo
where the GitHub actions deploy script is broken (see
https://github.com/sympy/sympy.github.com/pull/187). That should be
fixed before any further PRs are merged, or else it will break the
website.

Aaron Meurer

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