From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: "Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code - some ideas
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:25:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehe3iyo7.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5B0FOGbY53P+c9DMMaYXPdWQsNQSuCQ7XX1VgDeF+Rvsysiw@mail.gmail.com> ("Aurélien Aptel"'s message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:16:47 +0200")
Hi Aurélien,
Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Aurélien Aptel
> <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, If an emacs hacker is interested in mentoring any of these
>> projects please manifest yourself :) !
>
> I should mention some things :
> - being a mentor does not take too much time (GSoC FAQ says 5 hours a
> week is a reasonable estimate).
Well, depends.
I was a not-so-good mentor last year because I had two students to
take care of (including you), and I think it does take time to be a
good one.
There is always this temptation to say "Well, you're a grown up,
just make progress and report blockages. But I don't think it is
very effective -- I least I think we lost of lot of your precious
time and energy last year but relying to much on this.
> - a project can have multiple mentors (less work for each !)
... if they are well organized enough :)
> - I'll be asking most of my questions to the mailling list or the
> irc channel
That's very good. When we switched to this way of working last
year I think it was more effective.
> As far as I know, anyone sufficiently involved in Emacs can mentor.
> You basically have to review my progress, give some advice when I'm
> stuck and check up on me if I don't give any news in a long time.
Let me insist on this: this is soft-mentoring and can work, but I
think "deep" mentoring would much more worth--both for you and for
the project.
> If you're still interested head to the GSoC webpage where you can
> register (you need a google account I think)
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
Another thing: one point about GSoC is to "recruit" new contributors
for the project. I was happy with your contributions, but slightly
disappointed that you did not involve more into Org's community after
it was done: finishing the redmine sync, promoting your library, etc.
It's fine, because obviously there is no obligation here, and maybe
I was a bit naive about this -- I had this picture that finally we'll
work as a close team with all those new GSoC students (3 just for Org!)
Anyway, again, each mentor will have his expectation and I was faulty
of not having time enough for you. And I'm sure you'll contribute
with great code and ideas, so I'd be happy to see you step onboard
again.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-21 16:46 Google Summer of Code - some ideas Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:25 ` Bastien [this message]
2013-04-21 17:53 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 23:05 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 18:34 ` joakim
2013-04-22 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 17:51 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-22 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:16 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-22 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:39 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-23 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 15:52 ` Lennart Borgman
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