As a GSOC student, I'm more interested in making a progress on my development experience and skills. And whether to working on trunk is not so important, however, I wish my work can be packed into the new release for wide users, the earlier the better!
2011/3/19 Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de>: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote: >> Working on trunk is no panacea that guarantees a student is going to >> get quality review. I do not even see where it would make sense for a >> student to be on trunk (depending on the task). The real issue is >> that we probably do not have anyone able to devote the time to be a >> mentor this year and so maybe we should just not participate? > > I would mentor one student. > > I prefer students to submit a couple of patches before they get > commit access. Whether it makes sense to work on trunk or a branch > depends on the task, I suppose. No way to decide yet. > I would tend to prefer having students work on trunk, though. > They get to have more interaction with the community that way > (e.g. by breaking the build :) > -- Yun Lee
