Sorry if this went through before, since there were issues with my list
subscription. If not, please feel free to share your thoughts, as the
Google SoC summit is in two days. I'll be flying most of tomorrow, but
should be able to gather everything together tomorrow night.
Best regards,
Hi Kevin,
Sorry if this went through before, since there were issues with my
list subscription.
AFAIK it didn't - this is the first copy that I received.
Here is my feedback as a mentor. I'll be talking about the three
projects that we handled in Cayenne this year, as I have no idea how
For this and other emails in the thread, I'm going to switch hats from
my role of solicitor to one of fellow mentor. This is mostly to
stimulate more conversation. I will do my best to represent all
viewpoints fairly in the end, however.
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Sorry if this went through
On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Kevin Menard wrote:
o Should students be given more development resources than non-
committers?
-1
This goes a bit in hand with the previous discourse on patches.
This could quickly degrade into a procedural firefight, but it does
sorta irk me that we
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
No firefight - there is simply no other way to build karma on an open
source project. And the fact that one of our projects was done with no
community involvement simply sucks.
My point was that if some sort of distributed SCM was used rather than
SVN, then it wouldn't
o Is SoC a worthwhile program?
Yes, no question about this. In Cocoon and FOP, SoC brought us at
least two very good committers in 2005 and 2006, who might not have
joined the projects otherwise.
o Should the ASF continue to participate in the SoC program?
Sure!
o How can the ASF improve
