Hello. Is "Commons" willing to set up itself for welcoming new people who, in order to contribute to the projects, might need more support than the usual asynchronous review of patches?
The ASF participates in GSoC[1] and Outreachy[2] and some Apache projects seem well prepared for dealing with the mentoring requirements and application selection process. Last year, we[3] participated in GSoC, with mitigated results. Maybe it was partly due to the lack of experience with these programs, especially on how to gauge the candidates (wrt to the expected benefit for the project). Some people start to ask questions about their eventual application.[4][5] Is "Commons" too complicated for the target audience of those initiatives? Regards, Gilles [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [2] https://www.outreachy.org/ [3] Rob Tompkins, Eric Barnhill, Alex Herbert, and I. [4] https://markmail.org/message/n5prdwkaukw5ji37 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUMBERS-70?focusedCommentId=17028479&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17028479 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
