Hi Gary, Sorry for disappearing this week. I was caught up in college activities. I am still very much interested and serious about it.
I am looking in the starter tickets and wondering what are relevant now since everything I look at it 2-3 years old? Gary, I have experience in open source, so won't be much of a burden I assume I will be in mentoring ;) cheers, Kunaal On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For Kunaal's request to be viable we need to start getting some momentum > back into development. In addition, although I expect to be able to take > on all the responsibility for mentoring a student, I believe that we > would require a second mentor who is also on the PMC. As that suggests > such a person is required to ensure that a GSoC student is looked after > if the main mentor becomes unexpectedly unavailable. Of course, if the > second mentor wanted to be equally involved, that would be even better. > > So, if anyone is interested in helping out as a mentor, or has time to > make some progress with development, please let us know. > > Cheers, > Gary > > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, at 10:13 AM, Gary wrote: >> Hi again Kunaal, >> >> OK, thanks for letting me know that. Obviously I don't want to spoil >> your chances of getting a GSoC project so hopefully we can get a clear >> picture for you as soon as possible. In the meantime, I hope that we can >> provide you with some value by getting more experience of interacting >> with an open source project. >> >> If you want to look for yourself, for a start you should investigate >> here: https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/BloodhoundContributing >> >> You may also want to take a look at some previous GSoC projects to see >> what was made. >> >> Cheers, >> Gary >> >> >> On 12/01/16 09:02, kunaal jain wrote: >> > Hi Gary, >> > >> > Thanks for the encouraging words. I just setup the dev environment for >> > bloodhound and installed it. >> > >> > If you guys have tasks in mind which I can hack on, and improve, this >> > will be great for me to get acquainted with the codebase, and will be >> > beneficial for taking up GSoC project in bloodhound in future under >> > you. >> > >> > Thanks, but since I have college side by side currently, I don't think >> > I can manage to talk to another project/organisation, if I can find >> > tasks and project to work in here. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Kunaal >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 10/01/16 13:03, kunaal jain wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> Going by the mailing list and commit history, the project has slowed >> >>> down for quite some time now. Is there any reason for this? or just >> >>> lack of time? >> >>> >> >>> If the project maintainers can commit some time, I am interested in >> >>> contributing and hopefully apply for a project under it in GSoC 2016. >> >>> >> >> Hi Kunaal, >> >> >> >> I am very happy to see people taking an interest in contributing the the >> >> project despite the current slowdown in development. I would be certainly >> >> be >> >> willing to consider mentoring a project for a GSoC in 2016 if the current >> >> lull in development can be overcome. >> >> >> >> I don't expect you to only be talking to Apache Bloodhound for potential >> >> GSoC at this stage of course. If there are any areas of Bloodhound that >> >> you >> >> are interested in working on, let us know and I can try to help. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Gary >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Gary >> -- Regards, Kunaal Jain
