Ok, I am just wondering why both tasks are now marked as not a
beginner tasks. At least the localization task is rather trivial, so I
believe that everyone with basic programming knowledge should be able
to do that.
Thanks
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Petr,
thanks for the tasks you've added to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014 !
I've edited them a little bit.
I will transfer them to Google Melange once Google announces which
organizations are accepted for this round of Google Code-in.
For general info and expectations towards mentors, please read
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and
ask if something is unclear. :)
On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 14:20 +0100, Petr Bena wrote:
Sorry i didn't have much time, is there still
time for us?
Sure. You can add tasks at any time until the contest ends in January.
So far I got only few categories of easy tasks,
which on other hand
are really easy, so maybe not even suitable (they don't really require
much thinking). These are:
[...]
I believe all these categories are suitable for
newbie programmers,
but I don't really know if it's kind of tasks you would like to have
at code in. What do you think? Should I create bugs for these?
These sound like good cases for me, so yes, feel free to create tickets.
P.S. I have a number of harder tasks as well, but
these may require
deep knowledge of C and C++.
If those harder tasks are self-contained, non-controversial tasks that
would take an experienced developer 2-3 hours that would be suitable.
You can always clearly state in the task description that a student
applying for the task MUST be an experienced C/C++ developer already.
In the end it all depends on how clear the task description is when it
comes to expectations - that avoids bad surprises, disappointment or
even wasted time on both sides.
For example if you wrote "Expected time depends on number of strings
that would be fixed" a student would not know how much s/he is supposed
to fix. You could add a rough number to communicate expectations.
Imagine you are a student who has never heard of Huggle before - will
they be able to follow the task description and fully know what they are
supposed to do? If that is not the case, you might have to ask more
questions of those students on IRC. ;)
Could you also edit the general Huggle information (to be included in
each GCI task for Huggle) under
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Huggle
? Currently as a "clueless student" I'd have no good idea where to find
its code, how to compile it, how to test my changes, etc. Pointers
welcome (could be just a link to a wikipage explaining that already)!
Thanks!
andre
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