On 3/10/09 10:59 PM, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
I don't know how to put it "nicely", but
the key for GSoC to succeed,
on the mentor/senior devs side, is just to be *very* available. Easy
thing to say, I know, but that would be nice to keep this in mind if
we plan to host students this year.
It's not about having "xx minutes available a day for my student",
it's more of being able to set up in advance regular IRC meetings so
that his (her?) questions can be answered in real-time: being stuck on
your code when it seems like you won't get your questions answered in
a long time particularly sucks; especially when it seems to you that
answers are really simple.
And it's not only about mentors, but also about having some
"awareness" from devs that students are going to hang around on IRC,
asking for directions, and also sometimes asking (very) naive
questions: let's try not to bite them! =)
Total agreement... I want to make sure that we're able to make students
feel welcome and comfortable with the dev community -- not necessarily
just talking to the official mentor but feeling like they can ask
anybody anything just like they've been 'part of the team' for ages.
So yes, let's move, let's get involved into
GSoC again! This is really
a great project, and I'm really looking forward to seeing new faces
around, bringing in new ideas, as naive as they may sound =)
:D
-- brion