Hi, I co-mentored GSoC last year with Paulo Motta for Apache Cassandra project. Here is what we did last year:
* Marked streaming related issues as "gsoc2016"(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8110?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20AND%0A%20labels%20%3D%20gsoc2016). These issues were presented in GSoC website so that students can submit their proposal to them. * Candidate student contacted us and showed interest. We advised the student for proposal review. * Candidate submitted the proposal, and we evaluated his ability to accomplish the task. (Interview included). * Note that not all candidates are accepted. Google assigns certain number of students per organization, and since ASF has tons of projects, it can be competitive. * Initial plan for mentee to work was CASSANDRA-8928 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8928). Though the work amount that we (mentors) found after GSoC started was way more than what we estimated initially, so we switched the target issue to technically related issue. * Mentee finished two issues that related to streaming (CASSANDRA-10810 and CASSANDRA-12008) in timely manner with the quality we expected, so he passed the final evaluation. As an organizaiton, ASF will participate to GSoC as usual this year, but if Apache Cassandra project wants to participate, we need to start marking JIRA issue as "gsoc2017" by 2/9. Think before marking issue, though, that the issue can be tackled within GSoC period. :) I'm still not sure if I have time to mentor this year, but I'm willing to answer any GSoC related question. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the top post, but just want to make sure everyone has the details: > If any committers want to be involved in this, the ASF is filling this > out as a whole so we don't need to do too much on a project level. > > ASF details for mentorship (including GSoC) can be found here: > http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Русак Максим <mak-ru...@yandex.ru> wrote: >> Hello, developers of Cassandra. I'm really interested in the Cassandra >> project (especially in distributed metadata components(like gossip)) and >> eager to take part in GSoC, dive deep into Cassandra internals and make a >> contribution under mentorship. >> Currently I'm working on my undergrad diploma in Yandex YT (analog of >> Hadoop). My work is related to distributed metadata and anomalous nodes >> detection. >> So I have few questions: >> 1. Does Cassandra plan to take part in GSoC this year? >> 2. Are anyone willing to mentor? (not necessarily relating to distributed >> metadata) >> It'll be nice to see wide range of Cassandra projects and ideas. In this way >> Cassandra could attract new talents and accelerate development :) >> (Mentoring organization application deadline is February 9, 16:00 UTC, so it >> need to be done as soon as possible) >> >> Regards, Maxim Rusak
