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Regards, Brad (pixilla) > On May 4, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Umesh Singla <umeshksin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Thanks to the MacPorts guys for picking my project to be implemented! You > won't be disappointed! ;) > I see also that there's one other project in the organization. > Congratulations to my fellow interns! > > Regarding the work, I plan to keep a blog to report my progress. I'll write a > post about every two weeks, and keep email communication with my mentors. > > Thanks again, and you'll be hearing from me soon. > Have a nice weekend everyone! :) > > Regards > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > Dear students and developers, > > Google just announced 1,318 projects selected for the GSOC 2017. > > I'm happy to share with you that MacPorts got two slots for the > following projects: > > - Umesh Singla: > Adding migrate action to port command > mentor: Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) > > - "Zero King" (l2dy) > Bot and CI for macports-ports > mentors: Clemens Lang (cal/neverpanic) & Mojca Miklavec (mojca) > > At this point I would like to express my gratitude to Jackson Isaac > who took over the administration and made sure that we applied in time > :) > > Apart from (at least!) weekly meetings with the mentors, either via > our IRC channel (or somewhere else if more appropriate) we would like > to encourage the students to *publicly* interact with the community. > Ask questions on the mailing list and IRC, so that the rest of the > community will be kept up to date and will be able to help you even if > mentors will be temporarily offline. > > Unless you have some issues of private nature that should not be read > by everyone, please try to avoid sending private emails for technical > discussions. > > I suggest that we create a new entry for 2017 at > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeArchive > and add the description of projects to > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2017 > > The time until the end of May is meant for community bonding period, > learning our codebase or any other tools needed to get up to speed by > the time the official coding period begins. > > Project proposals/plans can still be improved or adapted by the end of > the month provided that both the student and mentor(s) agree to > changes. > > > To answer the (semi-serisous) question about what happens if the > project is finished way before the GSOC is over or whether it's OK to > start coding before the official coding period starts: this is of > course no problem as long a you keep in mind that it is desired to > keep coding and produce useful results until the end of the program. > (In particular: coding 16 hours per days and completing the project in > May and then quitting GSOC doesn't count.) > > I hope that others will add more to this thread. > > Mojca > > > > -- > Umesh Singla