On 6/29/2019 4:50 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: ...
The experiment may fail. Even if it does, we will have learned something. We don't do it again, and next time we try something different.
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Unfair to the interns involved, but the experiment will be most useful and enlightening if it does fail. We need to know what goes wrong.
My main concern with the Outreachy idea is that the projects will be self-selected to be unusually favorable to non-traditional contributors and then pass another level of filtering for commitment to mentoring etc. It may fail to show problems that would appear if the same intern had just joined the dev@ list for some project they find interesting.
