Hi,
At the FOSDEM Google announced that there will be a GSoC [1] again. We
also discussed whether or not to join, but decided it would be better to
discuss on this mailing list.
Some points we discussed at the FOSDEM were:
* GSoC mentoring and preparation cost a lot of time and that time
especially mentoring is done by core developers, who can not use that
time to hack on Wesnoth.
* The amount of students that stay is rather low. The whole idea of GSoC
is to gain new students and keep them. The disadvantages are:
* The project is abandoned after the summer.
* The mentor suddenly has an extra feature to maintain.
* Getting a new student up to speed takes quite some effort, so it
would have been faster if the mentor did the work him/herself. This
should pay itself back by gaining a new developer. The first
happens, the second too little. (That it takes time and is faster to
do it oneself is expected, just like training a new colleague.)
So the question is do we want to join?
Who will be available as mentor?
Who will be available as project administrator?
[1] http://code.google.com/soc/
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Regards,
Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew
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