Hey Yaron, On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote:
> But I hope that there's a better solution for it other than essentially > requiring potential students to become detectives, trying to find > interesting coding challenges that no one has proposed for GSoC etc. Maybe > the solution is for you and others to do this work yourself - talking to > MW/WMF developers to find more tasks and drum up enthusiasm among potential > mentors - essentially what you did before, but now as an administrator and > not a potential student. Thank you for the trust Yaron, but here we are talking not only about new tasks being up in Phabricator for students to charge upon, but to increase the quality of students itself before they start working on the project. Performance report of a student in that kind of a program even can make it easy for a mentor to better evaluate his/her proposal (considering past contributions matter). More than that, this would be one good option for post-GSoC students to still stick with the community too - as they can either participate, or even be mentors again. Yeah - we are trying to solve actually two problems here - (a) better community code review and codebase aware students before GSoC (b) making students stick back with Wikimedia after they complete their project. Thanks, Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas> Home <http://www.thomastony.me> | Blog <https://tttwrites.wordpress.com/> | ThinkFOSS <http://www.thinkfoss.com> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
