From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:31:26 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Jeff King , Christian Couder , Johannes Schindelin , Stefan Beller To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 10 10:31:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTR7n-0001kL-4e for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:31:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752196AbcBJJbq (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:31:46 -0500 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:54474 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752151AbcBJJbn (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:31:43 -0500 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1A9VPan020528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:31:25 +0100 Received: from anie (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1A9VQCJ005222; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:31:26 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:31:26 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: u1A9VPan020528 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1455701491.00219@zePBVoKPQOVaQKWvnL16JA Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, The GSoC (Google Summer of Code) application for mentoring organizations is now open. The deadline is Friday, February 19 at 19:00 UTC. That is: very soon. New website here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/. More info about Git's previous GSoC iterations there: http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Microprojects/, http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Org-Application/. I haven't been watching the list very closely the last few weeks, but I didn't see a discussion on whether we shall participate this year, other than "Starting on a microproject for GSoC" (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/284958). I think participating is a good thing, but it needs mentors, ie. people and time. On my side, I'd be happy to give a hand to GSoC, but unfortunately, I won't have time to properly mentor a student. I can be co-admin, and can help someone to mentor, but only if this someone agrees to do most of the work. Yes, I do realize that this sounds like "we should do it, but someone else should do the work" ;-). So, the first question is: are there volunteers to be GSoC mentors this year? For those who never did it: mentoring means giving advices to the student (partly done during the "microproject" phase in our organization), participating actively in reviews (possibly doing some first review iterations off-list to avoid overloading the list). On overall, the goal is to make sure that some useful code is merged before the end. It's a very enjoyable experience, it can be done with reasonable knowledge of Git's codebase and community (no need to be an old-timer), but it needs time to be done properly (expect to get ~10 iterations of each patch series, and spend hour(s) on each). And you get a nice tee-shirt to show off with your geek friends. If we have enough potential mentors, then the next questions are: who's the admin? Work on the application itself, and on the list of ideas. Cheers, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/