Hi Jed, > I've been org admin for TU Wien and mentored a couple of students in > 2011 and 2012. It's a nice thing to make PETSc known in the FOSS > community. > > In terms of raw code/functionality output, however, expect that *on > average* you need to invest more time in the student than what you > would come up with by coding it yourself. > > > This is the nature of teaching. The goal would be to improve workflow > and developer docs to make such contributions easier, and hopefully to > catch the interest of people that might later become more regular > contributors.
I don't doubt that you are aware of that, but others might not ;-) The crux with documentation is that it is not explicitly allowed as a separate project for GSoC, so it really needs to be a Summer of *Code*. You can reasonably expect that the student takes care of documentation for the code he/she writes, but you won't get much additional documentation work done. Best regards, Karli
