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Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 12, 2009, 13:25 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901121421530.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Just chiming in that I can probably help mentoring whoever goes with 
> libgit2. I do not have enough spare time for me to promise that I can be 
> there as much as I think is necessary and proper, but I'll gladly help 
> out.

I don't know if I like co-mentoring; I always had the impression that this does not work all that well.

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> On a side-note, I think all mentors should urge the students in the 
> strongest possible terms to deliver their work to git@vger as soon as 
> possible. From previous years experience, successful projects are those 
> that the list sees code from within a week or two after the project's 
> started, while the projects that are kept in the dark rarely (if ever?) 
> finish successfully.
Nope, that is just plainly incorrect.

The most successful GSoC project we had was Miklos' builtin-merge, but the code had to grow to a state that both him and me were comfortable with a submission to git@vger.

The _communication_ should be open, and much of it on the mailing list, I agree, but _only_ after the student is familiar enough with the aspects of her project (including some familiarity with the source code).

I will _not_ force a student to ask questions openly that he finds embarassing.

Ciao, Dscho

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  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 7, 2009
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