From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:06:21 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150220072924.GC8763@peff.net> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > This brings up an important issue. We cannot do GSoC without mentors. I > had hoped that people populating the "ideas" list would volunteer to > mentor for their projects. > > But so far the possibilities are: > > - Stefan > > - me, who has already promised to be stingy > > - Matthieu, who also cited time constraints > > - Junio, who contributed some project ideas, but who in the past has > declined to mentor in order to remain impartial as the maintainer > who evaluates student results (which I think is quite reasonable) > > So...basically 1 mentor and 2 reticent maybes? That doesn't look good. Indeed, the mentor panel looks particularly weak this year, if nobody can afford the time for proper mentoring. Even though I can indirectly help by giving reviews at a more hand-holding level than usual, there is a limit. And I definitely do not foresee acting as a mentor myself.