What happens if a mentor doesn't respond with 36 hrs? The weekend is going to be the most problematic stage, especially this first weekend.
Does this "36 hrs" also apply to reviewing in Gerrit and comments in Phabricator?
I am seeing students not submit their GCI task for approval once they have uploaded their patch into Gerrit. This is actually "good" in one sense, as they haven't finished the task until it is merged, but if we are not tracking Gerrit review times of GCI patches, it means the mentors are not obligated to do code review with 36 hrs and the participants are surprised at how long the code review phase is taking. (48 hrs in one case).
Is there any warning when the 36 hour limit is approaching?
Are Wikimedia org admins watching this limit somehow? Is there some process in place? e.g. 24 hr "this is getting worrying" status, where we find another mentor / code reviewer?
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
Google Code-in 2016 just started: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016
In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and mailing lists by onboarding newcomers who have never used IRC or lists before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand!
Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks!
You have not become a mentor yet? Please do consider it. It is fun and we do need more tasks! :)
- Think of easy tasks in your area that you could mentor. Areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface. "Easy" means 2-3h to complete for you, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks" for onboarding).
- OR: provide an easy 'clonable' task (a task that is generic and could be repeated many times by different students).
- Note that you commit to answer to students' questions and to evaluate their work within 36 hours (but the better your task description the less questions. No worries, we're here to help!)
For the full info, please check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016/Mentors and ask if something is unclear!
Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects!
Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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