As a GSOC student, I'm more interested in making a progress on my
development experience and skills. And whether to working on trunk is
not so important, however, I wish my work can be packed into the new
release for wide users, the earlier the better!
2011/3/19 Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> Working on trunk is no panacea that guarantees a student is going to
>> get quality review. I do not even see where it would make sense for a
>> student to be on trunk (depending on the task). The real issue is
>> that we probably do not have anyone able to devote the time to be a
>> mentor this year and so maybe we should just not participate?
>
> I would mentor one student.
>
> I prefer students to submit a couple of patches before they get
> commit access. Whether it makes sense to work on trunk or a branch
> depends on the task, I suppose. No way to decide yet.
> I would tend to prefer having students work on trunk, though.
> They get to have more interaction with the community that way
> (e.g. by breaking the build :)
>
--
Yun Lee
Received on 2011-03-19 11:51:13 CET