Kathey Marsden: Nice to write to you! I'm a prospective GSOC student from China. I'm glad to see Derby has been accepted as a mentor organization for this year's GSOC, and you are the mentor for the subject "derby-testandfix ". Congratulations!
After having travelled around the links about Derby provided on the wiki page of SummerOfCode2009 on Apache, I would love to devote this summer on Derby project. I'm familiar with java and TDD which I insist on in my development, and I still wonder: 1. What's the main part of code about Derby in GSOC, the kernel engine or the outside utils? 2. Are there any other mentors? I have just seen only yourself in the mentor list, may I know what's your favorite time period for this program. 3. Which skills is needed in the task, Junit, java, and anything else? 4. It's said, "Small projects and incremental check-ins mean your code can make an impact right away and you have a wide choice of code areas to focus on." Does it mean I will get access control of the VCS for Derby? 5. Besides java, should we use python in coding? Few months ago, I have touched this language, and fallen in love with this language and would like to improve my skills on python in development. 6. What can I do before I apply? Any necessary documents for my future work? Thanks for your reply! Best Regards Yun Lee
