Yesterday I couldn't send the weekly report. Here it goes, although the
data is from Monday to keep weekly consistency.
Summary: look at this!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_at_Google_Code-in_2013.png
Google Code-in: 6 weeks past, LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
We have 219 tasks completed, 17 in progress, and 42 open.
Org admins Andre and me can't express how thankful are we for the great
team collaboration and mentorship performance achieved thanks to the
contributions of many official and unofficial mentors, in the GCI site,
Gerrit, and Bugzilla. In a couple of months we have learned meny good
lessons that we will be able to apply not only in the next GCI edition,
but also (and mainly) in our processes to welcome new contributors with
appropriate tasks.
We are also getting good feedback from the GCI students that have
"survived" with us until this stage. As an indication, currently we have
about half of the students that we had after the first week of GCI, yet
they are completing just as many tasks. In fact we had some problems
related with excess of productivity (e.g. two students going after the
same task) but things seems to be relaxing a bit now. We can't blame
these students, GCI rules implicitly promote this hypercompetitiveness,
students are young and full of energy. :)
For the first time I can say that we don't need new mentors, and we
don't actually need new tasks (although additions of coding tasks are
still welcome, and they are still being taken by some brilliant young
developers). Thank you to everybody helping. Let's finish the last sprint!
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
