Hi Abhishek, Thanks for your feedback! We are really sorry to hear what you experienced.
We at WSO2, participated in GSoC for many years now with the intention of giving students opportunities to contribute to open source projects for the benefit of the entire community. This allows students to learn how open source communities work, new technologies related to their academic pursuits, give exposure to real world software development processes, etc. In the open source world, there is no labour concept, no one is paid for doing open source work. If someone is willing to contribute, they are most welcome to share their ideas and send contributions. GSoC program is trying to give opportunities for students to experience this and be a part of it [3]. If you do not like that idea, you should have opted out of this project at the very early stages. The GSoC Student Guide [4] has explained clearly how students should work with mentors and what to expect from them. Mentors are voluntarily contributing their time to GSoC projects with the intention of adding value to open source projects. They do this while working on many other things. Therefore delays in meetings and such occurrences may happen due to unavoidable circumstances. Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences caused in that regard. Please feel free to refer [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10] on how WSO2 community and your mentors have appreciated your contributions then and there. Changing requirements is part and parcel of software projects and software world. However we believe that we did our very best to keep the high level requirements of the project fixed. On high level, the main goal of this project was to implement a test framework to invoke bash scripts provided in WSO2 Dockerfiles and K8S Artifacts repositories for verifying WSO2 container images. As we believe that is a straightforward goal and nothing much need to be changed at the middle of the project except for refinements. [3] http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/what-is-google-summer-of-code/ [4] http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/working-with-your-mentor/ [5] [DEV] [GSoC Dockerfiles] Project update - Migration to Golang, http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/2016-July/065571.html [6] [Dev] [GSoC Dockerfiles] Added ability to run smoke tests from test framework, http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/2016-August/066879.html [7] [Dev] GSoC Dockerfiles weekly status meeting minutes, http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/2016-May/063294.html [8] [Dev] [GSoC Dockerfiles] Status update, http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/2016-June/065107.html [9] [Dev] [DEV] [GSoC] Meeting minutes from Dockerfiles test framework demo, http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/2016-June/065162.html [10] [GSoC Dockerfiles] Meeting minutes, http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/2016-July/066247.html Thanks On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Abhishek Tiwari < abhishek.tiwari0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > There are some organizations that looks at GSoC as getting free labour and > use it to get as much done as they can within 3 months time, WSO2 is one of > them. I was working 60 hours a week and never received any appreciation > from mentors. It was very disappointing but I always kept a positive > attitude and tried to meet all the deadlines. Mentors were very > unprofessional, they would agree on a meeting time and then never show up, > or they would keep delaying the meeting saying there is another meeting (I > have chat and emails to prove that). They never even cared to send an email > about it, there were so many such incidents, where I ended up waiting > hours. New requirements kept coming as they wanted to get as much work as > possible. There was no feedback on code so I did not learn anything from > code perspective, then just before 2 days mentor provided comments which > changed everything and I had rewrite most of it. The expectations from WSO2 > were completely unrealistic from a student point of view. I sincerely hope > that Google looks into it. > > Yesterday I was having a hangout call (over a weekend) to discuss the > newly created issues and I was trying to convince that I should work on the > high priority issue rather than changing the whole codebase and > architecture because there is an extra JSON parameter [2]. My mentor > shouted at me and threatened to fail me in the evaluation. This is very > disheartening as I have worked so hard on this project. My college is > already started and I am taking leaves to work on the project. If anyone > else has experienced similar situations in WSO2, I would recommend reaching > out to GSoC officials as I have done already. > > I am a 19 year old, first year engineering student (Freshman). All these > skills I learnt by myself. In the span of GSoC project, I had to learn > Docker, Dockerfiles, Puppet, Kubernetes, Bash scripting, Go language, WSO2 > codebase and many other things. It is evident from the code that I have > written so far [1]. It is very easy to judge someone without being in their > shoes, and I feel like my mentors have been pushing work and standards > without caring about my experience level, which in my opinion is completely > unfair. > > I am sure there are so many other great mentors in the organization and my > experience might be just one off. However, if any other student has felt > similar situations, it should be investigated. > > Thanks > Abhishek > > [1]. https://github.com/abhishek0198/wso2dockerfiles-test-fr > amework/commits/master > [2]. https://github.com/abhishek0198/wso2dockerfiles-test- > framework/issues/22 > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@wso2.org > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- *Imesh Gunaratne* Software Architect WSO2 Inc: http://wso2.com T: +94 11 214 5345 M: +94 77 374 2057 W: https://medium.com/@imesh TW: @imesh lean. enterprise. middleware
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