There students have different capabilities and knowledge. One of my role is to help them in choosing the projects. I hope that some of them (and as I see now 10% is enough) will continue to contribute after the workshop.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > >Here are my ideas: > > > >1. Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) - plenty of work here. > >Either bug-squashing or developing a new feature (like svn "blame" a la > >cvs annoatate) > > > >2. Syscalltrack - port to 2.5.x/2.6.x. (http://syscalltrack.sf.net/) > > > > > Hmm, yes. Take a project whose original maintainer have more-or-less > aboundaned. Take the point that caused the maintainer to give up on it. > Give it to people with no experience in Open Source. That sounds like a > nice, solid, plan. Your assumption is not exact. This kind of projects will be given to whom have real desire and capability to do it. > > If we are going to be giving them impossible tasks, I have a few of my > own I can add: > 1. Implement BiDi in Wine's font dialog > 2. Rewrite the Wine keyboard handling so that Word will work. > > Very necessary. Both of them. > > >3. Freecell Solver - take a look at: > > > >http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/freecell-solver/to-do.html > > > > > That's another point that is a problem with this course - they are > required to take the lead on whatever it is that they do. > > I think a much better format would have been to recruite people from > Israel with intimate knowledge of running open source projects. Me for > Wine, Muli for the kernel, Nadav for hspell, Shlomi for freecel solver, > etc. Agree with those people that they will be tutors for the students > for the summer course duration. Let the students fit into this outfit, > and join the development effort under the same conditions a real life > bazar developer works. Specify a given task from the project's ToDo list > to perform, and that's what they are going to be graded on. As usual - > anything goes. They are allowed to ask for help, solicit solutions, > everything a real FOSS programmer does. At the end of the semester, > either the teacher himself joins searches the mailing list archives for > the project and grade them, or he asks the Israeli rep. to grade the > student (or both). > Some people realy will help e.g. Muli and hopefully someone else from IBM (but I did not get final approve yet). Since it is summer only 4-5 lectures are reasonably because of time limits. The students that join an existing project will get the grades according to several parameters (if the maintainer will cooperate - his opinion will be a relatively major part). The students who will want and be able to start a new project will hav to prove the need first and will be able to build an envionment to work. The tools are availiable. > > As a fallback for students who don't want to join an existing project, > the current scheme may be chosen. The "objectives", "goals", and > "design" stages, however, will be waved for those students who choose to > join an existing project. > > Alexander - what say you? Do you think you could let a few interested > parties (such as myself, as I'm sure Nadav) come to the first meeting of > the session and present our projects, try to recruit helpers? Do you > think the teacher will go for such a scheme? > > I'm willing to come over for a one on one talk with him, work out the > fine details. You are invited - my mail and phone appears in the my web site. But to make it easier: 03-6406915 and eddiea [at] cs.tau.ac.il > > Shachar Eddie > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
