On 24/08/12 15:15, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Thanks for the wrapup, Platonides. > > I decided to mentor this project because several engineers sounded > enthusiastic about the idea and because Platonides had such a strong > reputation as a past contributor. I tried to find a mentor with more > domain knowledge, but no one accepted. I decided that all Platonides > needed was project management, and that I could provide that. I was > wrong.
I'd like to add that we discussed the suitability of Sumana at the beginning, and we agreed that I'd look for support with other community members when I found roadblocks during the project. > I now know that I can't mentor a GSoC student, especially not > while I'm also the organizational administrator, and that if we can't > find an enthusiastic, technically knowledgable mentor for a student then > we simply shouldn't accept them at all. You're being too harsh with yourself. I'm sure you *can* be a good GSoC mentor. But we haven't cloned a dozen Sumanas... yet :) > (In my defense, I did ping and email Platonides many times during the > summer, but sometimes we both lagged, a lot, in our responses. I > already knew it was best practice to have a weekly check-in call, and > it's my fault that we didn't set this up first thing, in May.) I'm sorry if someone understood from my mail that I was not contacted at all by my mentor. Albeit weak, there *was* some communication. The timing of your vacations was also unfortunate regarding GSoC. > On a more positive note, I'm glad the prototype is out, and I hope other > folks will try out SUBE and that it, along with > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Up! and the new WLM Android > app, will aid this and future mass-uploading to Commons. I also hope > the localisation team can give Platonides pointers on what he needs to > do to make this truly internationalized. Another similar new project is https://github.com/yarl/vicuna, we seem to have a proliferation of uploaders recently. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
