{"thread":{"id":"14882","subject":"GSoC final last meters","startedAt":"2008-08-08T01:24:39Z","lastAt":"2008-08-08T01:24:39Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"86449","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0808080321060.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de","threadId":"14882","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"GSoC final last meters","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2008-08-08T01:24:39Z","receivedAt":"2008-08-08T01:24:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Dear GSoC students, dear mentors, dear Git list,\n\nwe have all gathered here to participate in the last sprint of the Google \nSummer of Code.  A lot has happened during all that time.  The Git \ncommunity has seen \"fresh meat\", and there may have been a few being \nreminded of their first or second steps in Open Source looking back with a \nbit of envy.\n\nWe saw some of you students prosper from the hands-on discussions with a \nfew of the brightest minds that Open Source has to offer.\n\nWe have seen good work, we have seen excellent work, but also work that \ndoes not fall into these categories, and also work that was not done.\n\nAs you might know, the week between the 11th of August and the 18th of \nsame month is the week when the mentors have to give their evaluations \nabout their students' work.  The mentors are not allowed to base their \nevaluations on anything that might come after the deadline, but only on \nwork completed by that time.\n\nNow, dear students: it is not necessary to have all your work merged into \ngit.git yet; indeed, the 1.6.0 release cycle is on, and you can hope at \nmost for 'next', but not 'master'.\n\nHowever, in order to hope for a good evaluation, it is necessary to have \nat least something that comes _close_ to being mergeable.\n\nDear mentors, now I come to you.  Please make sure that you work with your \nstudents during those last days of the project, and help them reach their \ngoal.\n\nAnd when it comes to the evaluations, be honest: Google is extremely \ngenerous to provide us with funding for our students, but the students \nhave to earn it.  Every dollar that is spent undeservedly will be a dollar \nthat is not given to other, more worthy Open Source activities.\n\nTo all of you who are neither GSoC students nor GSoC mentors: please help \nby reviewing and encouraging.\n\nWith those thoughts in mind, I wish us all a fun and frantic last days of \nthe GSoC project, and I look forward to see you all even after the Summer \nhas ended.\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"}]}