On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Thomas and I would like to try the Google Code-In (GCI) programme this > year (GCI is for high school students). We’ve been participating to lots of > discussions about it at the GSOC summit 2017 and it seems like it could > bring some interesting things for the XWiki project. > > Our goal: > * Participate to GCI > * Kill 2 birds with one stone and create an onboarding programme for > anyone wanting to contribute to XWiki without any knowledge > > Here’s what we’ve done so far: > * We’ve started registering XWiki as an org on > https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/ > * We’ve also started creating the GCI pages on xwiki.org at > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleCodeIn/ > * We’ve started creating GCI issues in XWiki (reusing existing JIRAs + > creating new ones). The idea is to map our Paper Cuts ideas we had ( > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/PaperCut) with GCI. > ** In practice a GCI issue is a “Trivial” issue, labelled with “GCI”. > > Next immediate steps: > * Finish the application process before the 24th of October. We’ll know on > the 26th of October if we’re selected or not. > * Find at least 10 mentors for the programme. We’re currently 2. A mentor > doesn't need to be an expert in XWiki at all since the GCI tasks need to be > super simple with very clear success criteria. So we need the maximum of > mentors. We need to be prepared to handle 10-50 students at all time > participating to XWiki GCI tasks! > ** Example of people who could be mentors: committers, contributors, > QA/testers, XWiki users, ex-GSOC students > * Before the 28th of November have at least 200 tasks defined. > > IMPORTANT: The mentors are not assigned to any student and we work as a > pool of mentors (it’s not like GSOC!). A mentor can handle validating tasks > and answering questions from students at the intensity that they want > (could be as low as doing that for a few tasks only). > > Please let us know quickly if you’re willing to be a mentor for GCI! > +1 Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > >
