On 02/ 7/12 11:07 AM, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
That sounds like a great idea. Over the last couple years, we've had
an increasing number of students who were more interested in money
than in the actual technical challenge and the open source aspect.
Such students will require lots of mentoring, do a sloppy job, and
then disappear after the summer. For us (X.Org) it's a net loss
because we invest mentoring time. Recruiting passionate students in
the universities would help us avoid this problem.
Along the same lines I'm thinking about having a policy of "you must
have at least one accepted patch to one of the freedesktop repos to be
a SoC student" this year.
That's an interesting idea, and shouldn't be too hard a burden to bear,
especially if we've got a set of "bite size" bugs/fixes identified they
can try tackling, like the ones on
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=love&resolution=---
We should also look at the tips Donnie shared from the Gentoo project
GSoC experience:
http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/succeeding-in-the-google-summer-of-code-as-a-large-project
http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/succeeding_gsoc
(Unfortunately, I don't know if that was one of the FOSDEM rooms being
recorded this year, but fortunately, we know how to find Donnie to pick
his brain directly as needed.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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