o Is SoC a worthwhile program?
Yes, no question about this. In Cocoon and FOP, SoC brought us at least two very good committers in 2005 and 2006, who might not have joined the projects otherwise.
o Should the ASF continue to participate in the SoC program?
Sure!
o How can the ASF improve the student experience?
By being very careful about the student selection - it is much better to have the "wrong" students fail very early in the process.
From what I've seen (I was a mentor last year, not this year), we
should only accept students who have been actively doing something to "connect" with our communities before the program starts. Others usually don't get the way we work, or get it much too late to do anything useful.
o How should the ASF use student projects?
If student's projects can be integrated directly in our codebase that's very cool. But in some cases this can also be an opportunity to try wild things which have little chance or being directly useful.
o Should students be given more development resources than non-committers?
Last year in the Cocoon project we opened an area of our SVN whiteboard (experimental zone) for the students, IMHO this was very good: it allowed us to see their progress in real time and it helped them learn the right way to work with a shared repository. If we want them to work full time on the project we have to give them good tools, IMHO. -Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
