Re: My advice for GSoC applicants

2014-03-03 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 03/03/2014 11:29 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [...] > Multiple students seem to be hitting the same microprojects (aka "we > are running out of micros"), which might be a bit unfortunate. I > think the original plan might have been that for a student candidate > to pass, his-or-her patch must hi

Re: My advice for GSoC applicants

2014-03-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty writes: > Based on my experience so far as a first-time Google Summer of Code > mentor, I just wrote a blog article containing some hopefully useful > advice for students applying to the program. Please note that this is > my personal opinion only and doesn't necessarily reflect

Re: My advice for GSoC applicants

2014-03-03 Thread Rick Umali
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > My secret tip for GSoC success > > http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-secret-tip-for-gsoc-success.html I enjoyed reading that BLOG post. I daresay some of the points you raise are pertinent for any new contributor to any open

Re: My advice for GSoC applicants

2014-03-03 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Michael Haggerty" Cc: "Dmitry Dolzhenko" ; "Sun He" ; "Brian Gesiak" ; "Tanay Abhra" ; "Kyriakos Georgiou" ; "Siddharth Goel" ; "Guanglin Xu" ; "Karthik Nayak" ; "Alberto Corona" ; "Jacopo Notarstefano" Hi, Based on my experience so far as a first-time Google Summer of Code mentor, I j

My advice for GSoC applicants

2014-03-03 Thread Michael Haggerty
Hi, Based on my experience so far as a first-time Google Summer of Code mentor, I just wrote a blog article containing some hopefully useful advice for students applying to the program. Please note that this is my personal opinion only and doesn't necessarily reflect the views of the Git/libgit2