From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:12:35 GMT Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130219072512.GI19757@elie.Belkin> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> The short undiplomatic version of that is that our mentors suck (I'm >> not pointing fingers, but that's what I infer from failing projects). > > Hold on a second. I'm not remembering such a grim outcome with 100% > failure from prior summers of code as you're describing. Before I > start beating myself up, I guess I'd like a little more information > --- is there some specific project or statistic that you're thinking > of that brings you to that conclusion? In retrospect, I might have been unnecessarily harsh there. One of the main measures of a mentor's success, in my opinion, is having his student stick around after the Summer of Code: the mentor is the student's primary link to the community. There have been 4~5 students every year, times 6 years (is that how long we've been participating?). How many of those students have felt part of the community?