list as to which tasks would make a good GSoC project.
Hi Tiago, I think these are great ideas and I'm very happy that you're going to continue mentoring. Thanks! I agree with you and Kathey that it is hard to implement a substantial new feature in the compressed GSoC timeframe. I have tried this with some very motivated students, with limited success, but it is quite challenging. The downside to projects like the test-and-fix project is that they aren't really exciting for the students; I've had students comment that, while they learned a lot about the open source process, and met lots of great people in the Derby community, they didn't really improve their programming knowledge very much. Still, I've been quite pleased with the results of my experiences mentoring students through the test-and-fix process for a summer, and I think it's a very appropriate internship opportunity, and I hope we continue to offer it. Another idea I thought of for your list was something related to performance: building benchmarks, running existing benchmarks, establishing some infrastructure for gathering and publishing known results, etc. thanks, bryan
