If there are any projects that don't exceed my CouchDB / erlang / JS knowledge, I'd make sure I'm available enough to support someone doing a GSoC with us. What's the workflow here? Do we have to apply as a project? Do we have to propose projects? I did look at "Prospective ASF mentors: read this" of [1], but I don't see what it looks like for a project. Do we need a vote here?
Donat [1]: https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:52 PM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > The ASF often ends up doing GSoC. I don't think we've ever had the > sponsor within the project for it (or for Outreachy, for that matter). > > The most critical part is being available on a regular basis for proper > mentoring. If you don't think you can get that into your schedule, don't > volunteer. Assume you will get zero support from any other developer > (not true, but best to plan for the worst case situation...) > > The second most critical part is to come up with a self-contained > project that makes sense for CouchDB. The most obvious thing to me would > be Fauxton work, esp. as it falls into the "sweet spot" of JS > development. I dunno how good of a target main is, given how in flux it > is; others might have a better take on that. There's also this PR that > never finished up: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1254 > > These topics are all probably too big, but maybe one of them could be > cut down to something summer-sized: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/projects/1 > > Thanks for taking on this initiative! I know for a fact I won't have > time this summer, or I'd agree to join you. > > -Joan > > On 28/03/2021 15:59, Bessenyei Balázs Donát wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've just seen that the ASF is accepted as a mentoring organisation > > for GSoC 2021. > > Is CouchDB interested in participating? > > I've never done a GSoC before, but I'd certainly be interested. I'd be > > happy to help a student contribute to CouchDB. > > > > What do you all think? > > > > > > Thank you, > > Donat > >
