On 05/10/2013 02:51 AM, Yury Katkov wrote:
Hi everyone!
What tools do you use for a small tasks in Google Summer of Code? I mean the tasks like "prepare the working environment", "learn gerrit", "write a blogpost", etc.? I thin that bugzilla is too heavy for this purpose.
Also can we use microblogging for reporting the current progress (in addition to posts in a blog one in 2 weeks )? I tried that once and it was very fun and efficient.
Cheers,
Yury Katkov, WikiVote
Unfortunately project management/tasktracking tools are just so specific to individuals' taste that I don't have a good recommendation (now that I'm no longer working at Fog Creek selling FogBugz).
Whatever you use, whether it's Remember The Milk or Trello or cronjobs or a wiki page using https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Project_documentation_h... templates or pump.io or some kind of IRC bot hooked up to three Roombas (one for the student, one for each mentor), it will work better if it suits the temperaments and tastes of everyone in your team. And if you choose to use something other than a wiki page, please do regularly paste some summaries onto a mediawiki.org status page; the project doc HOWTO gives you a bunch of useful functionality there.
The GSoC mentors' mailing list probably has opinions on this, I bet.