Re: Git in Outreachy Dec-Mar?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 6, 2018, 19:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20180906193130.GA28588@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD1nbv6=6JLnOCkmCcZjNOcDfOm4oH7pxHsYcddUYUxBPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:51:49AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

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> > Thanks. I signed us up as a community (making me the "coordinator" in
> > their terminology). I think the procedure is a little different this
> > year, and we actually propose projects to mentor through their system.
> 
> Yeah, I think the https://git.github.io/Outreachy-17/ is not actually necessary.

I think it still may be helpful for explaining in further detail things like #leftoverbits (though I see you put some of that in your project description).

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> > So anybody interested in mentoring should go here:
> >
> >   https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/
> >
> > (and you'll need to create a login if you don't have one from last
> > year). You should be able to click through "Submit a Project Proposal",
> > after which the fields are pretty self-explanatory.
> 
> I did that for the "Improve `git bisect`" project. As the
> "coordinator", you will need to approve that project.

Thanks. I approved it, though a few of the descriptions are a little funny. For instance, the text says "we use an issue tracker", which then links to public-inbox. I assume this is because you filled in a field for "issue tracker" and then the system generated the text. I don't know if there's a way go into more detail there.

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> I think the person who submits a project becomes some kind of primary
> mentor for the project. So Dscho, if you want to be such a mentor for
> one or both of the other projects on the Outreachy-17 page, please
> submit the project(s) otherwise please tell me and I will submit them.
> You are free of course to change things in these projects when you
> submit them or to submit other completely different projects.

Yes, I think the point is make sure the mentors are invested in the individual projects. I imagine a kind of "oh, one of us will probably mentor it" attitude has led to problems in other projects in the past.

-Peff