I would love to see my work on HTMLDiff continued this year by someone who's good at client side scripting. Of course I can help out with the server side stuff.
I think the main reason why my project was a "mixed success" is that I felt like I was pretty much on my own. Actually this is the first time I read about interest from the community in HTMLDiff since September last year. So my advice is: - Make sure that as a community, you embrace the project you choose, or don't choose it at all. - Select mentors that are available and that have the time to help the student out when a task is outside of the student's skill set. My mentor last year was a celebrity, a great guy and possibly a genius, but I think I would have been happier with a mentor that was more average, that could work with me without giving me the feeling that I was taking up the CTO's valuable time. Cheers, Guy 2009/3/11 Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > On 3/10/09 10:59 PM, Nicolas Dumazet wrote: > > I don't know how to put it "nicely", but the key for GSoC to succeed, > > on the mentor/senior devs side, is just to be *very* available. Easy > > thing to say, I know, but that would be nice to keep this in mind if > > we plan to host students this year. > > It's not about having "xx minutes available a day for my student", > > it's more of being able to set up in advance regular IRC meetings so > > that his (her?) questions can be answered in real-time: being stuck on > > your code when it seems like you won't get your questions answered in > > a long time particularly sucks; especially when it seems to you that > > answers are really simple. > > > > And it's not only about mentors, but also about having some > > "awareness" from devs that students are going to hang around on IRC, > > asking for directions, and also sometimes asking (very) naive > > questions: let's try not to bite them! =) > > Total agreement... I want to make sure that we're able to make students > feel welcome and comfortable with the dev community -- not necessarily > just talking to the official mentor but feeling like they can ask > anybody anything just like they've been 'part of the team' for ages. > > > So yes, let's move, let's get involved into GSoC again! This is really > > a great project, and I'm really looking forward to seeing new faces > > around, bringing in new ideas, as naive as they may sound =) > > :D > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
