From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Students: Please only do one microproject! Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:20:09 +0100 Message-ID: <530FAC09.3080403@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sun He To: git discussion list X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 27 22:20:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ8NU-00080J-Uw for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:20:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751940AbaB0VUR (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:20:17 -0500 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu ([18.7.68.19]:43030 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbaB0VUM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:20:12 -0500 X-AuditID: 12074413-f79076d000002d17-b0-530fac0b3e55 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id CD.E1.11543.B0CAF035; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:20:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.69.148] (p57A24AC7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.162.74.199]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id s1RLK93g022937 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:20:11 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFmpjleLIzCtJLcpLzFFi42IRYndR1OVewx9s8G2ZqUXXlW4mi7bb2xkd mDx2zrrL7vF5k1wAUxS3TVJiSVlwZnqevl0Cd8bVvZ1sBR85Kq6e7mBvYGxl72Lk5JAQMJH4 f2M7I4QtJnHh3nq2LkYuDiGBy4wSD9pXM0M455kk3sy8AVbFK6At8XrJCjCbRUBV4uSNlawg NpuArsSinmYmEFtUIFhi9eUHLBD1ghInZz4Bs0WAanY9uwq0gYODWUBR4u1ZTpCwsICxxL0p 15hBwhIC4hI9jUEgYWYBHYl3fQ+YIWx5ie1v5zBPYOSfhWToLCRls5CULWBkXsUol5hTmqub m5iZU5yarFucnJiXl1qka66Xm1mil5pSuokREo7COxh3nZQ7xCjAwajEwzvBkz9YiDWxrLgy 9xCjJAeTkihv7kqgEF9SfkplRmJxRnxRaU5q8SFGCQ5mJRFe3zlAOd6UxMqq1KJ8mJQ0B4uS OK/aEnU/IYH0xJLU7NTUgtQimKwMB4eSBK/nKqBGwaLU9NSKtMycEoQ0EwcnyHAuKZHi1LyU 1KLE0pKMeFA8xhcDIxIkxQO0F6ydt7ggMRcoCtF6ilGX43bbr0+MQix5+XmpUuK8T0GKBECK Mkrz4FbAks8rRnGgj4V5S0CqeICJC27SK6AlTEBLjkrzgCwpSURISTUwzvfK4Y65emvbWlUd xqYXCU+vlYY/EP38UTjY0mbz7xc/hDryF0eG2z9ItCzhflaQWLmM9Wh6xPfv4iHOgU2b9LfN 8thiGnWrilfE7+6ivj+6bmU7zLKm7lHomz9Tr2PDvrtdzbsDe6UyNe9mPzI+1scc Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Students, Please don't solve more than one microproject. Since the coding part is such a small part of a microproject, doing many is not much more impressive than doing just one. And it takes quite a while to come up with ideas for microprojects! (I can already see that we are running out and will need more...) Rather, please pick one microproject and do it *perfectly*. And after you've done that, if you are still itching to do more, then get involved in other ways, like * Find *other* little (or big!) problems in the code and either fix them or suggest them as additions to the list of microprojects for other students to work on. * Help review other people's patches--students' or anybody else's. A well-thought-out code review is a very valuable thing. * Fix other things, like documentation. * Answer questions on the mailing list or in IRC. * Write tests for bugs that people report on the mailing list. etc. etc. In other words, do things that other people on the mailing list do. Thanks! Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/