Hi Justin, On 22.01.2026 10:05, Justin Mclean wrote: > In particular, the student would need to be comfortable with a few > constraints: > > - Working within the existing technology stack. > - Treating this as an incremental improvement, not a green-field redesign. > - Making changes via public pull requests, with review and > discussion happening asynchronously. > - Understanding that this is an open source, consensus-driven > process, where feedback may take time and changes are evaluated by > the community, not a single “client”. > > If the student is happy with those constraints, I’m happy to help > provide guidance on priorities and review PRs, alongside Bertrand. As > with any Incubator resource, final acceptance would still rest with the > IPMC.
Hi Justin, Apologies for the delayed response: I was fully occupied with FOSDEM. I have already discussed with the student the particularities of working in an open-source environment, but thank you for providing such a clear and explicit list of constraints. I agree with all of them and would suggest adding one additional point: * The University should *not* expect pull requests to be merged by any specific date and should allow the student to defend their thesis even if some PRs remain open or under review. I will make sure to communicate this clearly to the student’s advisor. On a related note, we have managed to convince the University to change the licensing terms under which the student will grant my freelance company rights to their work. Instead of a non-transferable exclusive license (which is what their default agreement says), I will receive a non-exclusive, sublicensable license. This arrangement will allow the student to independently sign an ASF ICLA. Piotr --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
