Re: GSoC 2015 is over

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> I consider this GSoC as a great success and a pleasant experience.
>> Congratulation to Paul and Karthik, and a warm "thank you" to everybody
>> who contributed: administrators, mentors, reviewers, and obviously
>> Junio! (not to mention Google, who made all this possible)
>>
>> Thanks all!
>

Congratulations Paul and Karthik!

>
> I do not know what made it different this year from years past.  We
> may want to ask ourselves what made it a successful year, so that we
> can repeat the success factors the next year:
>
>  * The individual qualities of the students we got this year must
>    have been a major factor.  This we can indirectly influence by
>    having a very engaging microproject period, I think, and we did
>    so this year.
>
>  * I cannot say anything about mentor-student interactions, which
>    are largely private.  Mentors may want to share tips to get
>    students more engaged, or perhaps the level of engagement was
>    primarily affected by who the students were.  I dunno.

As a first time mentor, I sometimes had the feeling of not doing enough
mentoring. Though maybe just because of less private student-mentor
interaction the reviews came to the list earlier exposing the patches to
a wider audience?

>
>  * The topics chosen this year were well-sized, not overly nebulous.
>
>  * The reviewers were helpful and probably more active than past
>    years.
>
> Thanks.