From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code '07 application Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:39:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20070310173904.GD29710@fieldses.org> References: <20070308050746.GA29778@spearce.org> <20070309022118.GC32211@spearce.org> <20070309060128.GC5026@fieldses.org> <20070309153934.GA1131@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 10 18:38:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HQ5WY-0003Q9-Se for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:38:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752842AbXCJRiX (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:38:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752845AbXCJRiX (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:38:23 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:40867 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752842AbXCJRiW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:38:22 -0500 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HQ5X6-0005NF-2v; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:39:04 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070309153934.GA1131@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:39:34AM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:21:18PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > I have updated the wiki with the final draft, and taken into account > > > the copy editing that people were trying to do last night in parallel > > > with me overwriting their changes all of the time. ;-) > > > > I see a few more minor language fixes--do you want them by wiki or > > email? > > Wiki would probably just be quicker. Feel free to edit away. OK, I did a little more editing. A couple more changes to consider: At http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors they suggest that smaller completed projects are easier to pick up than larger unfinished work, Makes sense to me. That might suggest a slightly different approach here: "In the unfortunate event that a student abandons and does not complete his/her GSoC project, the Git community will try to pick up and continue the work without the student. This is one reason why we will require frequent publishing of project materials to repo.or.cz." But I'm not sure what exactly--maybe say something about encouraging small incremental steps? Also they suggest that "students should not be forced to do anything that other contributors do not do, so if the student wants to blog, let them do so, but do not force them." So maybe we should ditch the "weekly project updates" requirement. Those might not end up being very substantive anyway. Maybe replace that with some sort of private communication with the mentor? (And the irc office hours thing sounds like a good idea too--might be worth mentioning.) --b.