On 4/26/13, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 25/04/2013 janI wrote: >> I find your document quite good (a >> little light on details), and I look forward to help you (among others) >> with a projects that will benefit many end-users. > > It's time to discuss this a bit. The project as a whole is clearly going > to give the best possible support to Rajath and other GSoC applicants, > but we need a technical mentor for each project, i.e., someone who can > help with the actual programming, evaluate/integrate code, suggest how > to improve it according to the project's best practices and so on. > > If I understood correctly Alexandro posted the idea as a "promoter", but > he won't be the "technical mentor" we need to identify (or are you going > to take care of this, Alexandro? I just note you are not a regular code > contributor in that area -neither I am, of course- but I may be wrong > about your intentions). So, even though everybody on the list can help, > who is available to act as the main technical mentor for Rajath and take > responsibility for evaluating the outcome if the application gets accepted?
>From my conversations with other mentors of projects, the degree of coding expertise is relative, as much of the help needed is to get around the information that resides on the documentation and such. Even if I have commit rights, most of the final projects end up on bugzilla as a patch, and is up to the team to accept it, reject until adjustment or reject it permanently. I also hope that most of the mentors are more active on #dev.openoffice.org to increase the feedback flow on technical matters. As far as this project goes, most of the coding will need to be external, almost like an extension. I would need to research this project a bit more, but the reality is that we havent really make a good job promoting the GSOC project and even if we experience a good uptake the first weeks, it quickly died down. This might not be up to AOO alone, a lot of people have experienced 50% - 70% reduction in proposals from last year. > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
