Hi all! As always, Gentoo plans to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2019. We are looking for new project ideas and are always open for new mentors.
1. Project ideas GSoC projects should be suitable for 3 months worth of work for a student, taking into account time required for students to get in touch with the project, to learn some details, to fix mistakes and make improvements. Most students are not yet seasoned developers, so their coding rate will be likely slower than yours. Usually projects are something more complicated than just writing some ebuilds, however if non-trivial ebuild related work is required, e.g. to write new eclasses and adapt existing packages to use them (or add new ones), this should do too. Ideas from previous years may be reused, but this should not be abused, since Gentoo moves forward and we have new stuff to do. If you have an idea, but can't be a mentor, please still tell us about it, we'll try to find a mentor later. Ideas should be put to our wiki: [1]. The page contains ideas adding howto. 2. Mentors If you want to be a mentor, welcome! It is not necessary to be a Gentoo developer in order to be a mentor, but project must be Gentoo related. Mentoring requires some time. It depends much on a student, but is usually within 4-10 hours per week. If you don't have that much time, but still want to help, you may become a backup mentor. Students often have 2 mentors to eliminate bus factor and to improve expertise in a project. Please keep in mind that GSoC is not just about new code, but about bringing new people to community and we have developers which where GSoC students in the past. So time invested in students will result not only in some problems solved, but into bringing new people to our community and strengthening ties with existing participants. Mentors should enlist themselves on the wiki: [2]. If you have any questions or proposals, feel free to reply to this e-mail, or contact us via #gentoo-soc IRC channel on FreeNode[3], or by writing to project's alias[4]. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Ideas [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Mentors [3] http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=gentoo-soc [4] mailto:soc-ment...@gentoo.org Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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