Hi Sharan, I think a participation in the GsoC is a good idea in general.
I'm not sure if the proposed topics are suitable for such a program, especially if the students are not familiar with OFBiz. They need a lot of knowhow and learning before one can be productive and the mentors must spent a significant amount of time to support them.
So, from the ASF perspective this might be a good idea, but for the project it is not efficient.
We should find some simpler topics for the GsoC to make this a reasonable initiative. At the moment, I have not the right idea what this could be.
Best regards, Michael Am 25.01.18 um 15:02 schrieb Sharan Foga:
Hi All The ASF is registering to be a participating organisation for GsoC 2018. We are in the middle of doing a lot of work. Would it be interesting for us to add some of these tasks to the GsoC list and mentor some students? It is a good way of encouraging new people to become involved with the project and maybe also promote OFBiz too. If any of our tasks are selected, then we would need official mentors from our community to work with the student on a regular basis to provide feedback. There is also a regular reporting that the mentor needs to file about the student's progress. If the mentor misses filing a report for a student then it reflects badly on the ASF as a mentoring organisation. I mention this because it is important that anyone wanitng to be a mentor for a GsoC student realises that if they sign up to do it – then they need to do it! Some initial suggestions for GsoC tasks from Taher were: - convert minilang services to groovy - documenting the components using the documentation framework we're implementing - convert integration tests to unit tests where possible If you have any other suggestions for potential tasks then please respond with the details. None of this is any good – if we don't have any mentors, so we need people willing to be GsoC mentors. So what's next? - First I'd like to get feedback on whether people think it is a good idea for OFBiz to participate - If, so then second I would like to see if we should use the suggestions for tasks above or have any more - Finally, and most importantly I'd like to know who would be willing to be a mentor for a student selecting to take on one of our tasks Please let me have your comments and feedback Thanks Sharan
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