Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 23, 2019, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20190923192704.GD21344@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190923175805.58457-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:58:05AM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote:

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> > I think this is really great, both the idea and the description! No
> > need for more details.
> 
> Thanks! I've just submitted the project proposal - hopefully it will be
> approved soon. In any case, it seems that project information can be
> edited after submission.

I approved this. I did leave some comments elsewhere in the thread, but I think we can continue to iterate on the idea.

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> There was a "How can applicants make a contribution to your project?"
> question and a few questions about communication channels. I answered
> them as best I could but if anyone has already answered them, it would
> be great to just use the same answer everywhere. (I can't see all
> project information of other projects since I haven't filled out a
> "short initial application", but I don't think that applies to me.)

What you wrote there looks pretty good to me. Copying it here for purposes of discussion:

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> Please introduce yourself on the public project chat:
>
> IRC - Follow this link to join this project's public chat. If you are
> asked for username, pick any username! You will not need a password to
> join this chat.
>
> Git mailing list - Follow this link to join this project's public
> chat.

where the IRC link goes to Freenode's webchat, and the mailing list link goes to https://git-scm.com/community.

The other proposal is from Christian, who wrote:

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> Please introduce yourself on the public project chat:
>
>     a mailing list - Once you join the project's communication
>     channel, the mentors have some additional instructions for you to
>     follow:
> 
>     Start the subject of your emails to the mailing list with "[Outreachy]" so that mentors and people interested in Outreachy can easily notice your emails.
>     Follow this link to join this project's public chat.
> 
>     Send an email to majordomo@vger.kernel.org with "subscribe git" in
>     the body of the email.

I think the "[Outreachy]" advice is good, and worth adding to yours. I think linking to the "community" page is a good idea for Christian's, as it has more tips on using the mailing list.

I'd leave it up to individual mentors whether they want to mention IRC (based on whether or not they actually use IRC themselves).

-Peff