I think we should encourage students to post on the mailing list when they
want to discuss their ideas and if they have any questions, or need any
help.
I don't think student introductions serve any purpose on the mailing list.
The gitter channel might be a better place for that IMO.
Regards,
I think we all agree the discussion should happen at the mailinglist, as
opposed in private emails. Only if nobody responds at the list, I think it is
ok for the student to email a mentor privately, asking him to respond at the
list.
Regarding the mailinglist introductions, maybe we can simply
One more note of concern. We've asked students to post their proposal
drafts and final versions to the wiki. This makes it an open process that
is also archived by default. There are positives to this approach.
It seems most students are now using google docs or sharing pdfs instead.
Google docs
I don't agree that a requirement to introducing themselves should be
getting a PR merged. That is a barrier to community building for these new
potential contributors. My opinion is that we put far too much weight on
the PR(s) in the first place.
I like the idea of having each student opening an
Sir if that happens it would be much fruitful for first pull request
seekers can we have any arrangements made for those to teach to students
who are new to git
On Sat, 28 Mar, 2020, 2:38 AM Oscar Benjamin,
wrote:
> Perhaps there could also be a mentor mailing list for helping any new
>
Perhaps there could also be a mentor mailing list for helping any new
contributors (GSOC or otherwise) looking to open a first pull request.
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 20:41, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 18:31, Aaron Meurer wrote:
> >
> > Maybe the best way for students to
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 18:31, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> Maybe the best way for students to simply introduce themselves would
> be to mention that they are apply to GSoC when they open their first
> pull request. Since they have to open a pull request anyway, this
> should reduce the noise.
I think
Perhaps we should remove the instruction to introduce yourself to the
list from the instructions. I realize those can get quite spammy.
Maybe the best way for students to simply introduce themselves would
be to mention that they are apply to GSoC when they open their first
pull request. Since
Hi,
Yes, I've often wondered whether it really makes sense to have every
potential applicant email the whole mailing list.
Perhaps it would be reasonable to have a separate Sympy GSOC mentors
list for these emails. Then maybe the applicants could email the
list with specific code / design
What about asking applicants to create issues on GitHub to discuss their
ideas.
On Fri, 27 Mar, 2020, 11:47 PM Oscar Benjamin,
wrote:
> I also wonder if the mailing list is the right place for all these
> GSOC discussions anyway. What is normally a low-volume list ramps up
> massively right now
I also wonder if the mailing list is the right place for all these
GSOC discussions anyway. What is normally a low-volume list ramps up
massively right now as the GSOC deadline approaches which is not good
for other users of the mailing list.
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 18:05, Nikhil Maan wrote:
>
>
There are instructions for students for introducing themselves on the
mailing list in the *student instructions *and discussing an idea on the
mailing list on the* ideas page*.
But there is nothing to encourage students to have a public discussion on
the mailing list over messaging the mentors
I tend to take the same approach.
I don't think there is anything about this in the student instructions
on the wiki, but we can add something.
Aaron Meurer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 4:07 PM Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Over the past couple of months I have lost count of the number of
>
Hi all,
Over the past couple of months I have lost count of the number of
times that I have been emailed off-list by people interested in
applying for GSOC with sympy this year.
It's excellent that so many people are interested but I have not
replied to *any* off-list emails and I don't intend
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