From: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast•ch>
To: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy•com>
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Subject: Re: GSoC 2014: Summary so far, discussion starter: how to improve?
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:21:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvrophm7.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131019215139.GX13967@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> (Fredrik Gustafsson's message of "Sat, 19 Oct 2013 23:51:39 +0200")
Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy•com> writes:
>>
>> * Break projects into smaller, easier tasks
>> - They should individually be simple, quick things if the mentor did
>> them.
>> - Should be parallelizable so students don't have to block on reviews.
>
> I'd 5-6 smaller projects setup for the summer, I think I managed to do
> 2-3 of them. (I did however do everything I applied for). I really think
> it's an excellent idea. This also meant that while one patch waited for
> review, I'd other things to work on.
Lots of kudo points for Jens and Heiko :-)
>> * Mentoring improvements:
>> - Always have a co-mentor
>> - Focus on social aspects (who to Cc, etc.)
>> - Nominate separate "review mentors" to ensure fast review cycles
>
> I like the idea of review mentors. However bear in mind that you'll
> already have three people reviewing the patches (two mentors and Junio).
> We will not make it look like it's impossible to get things into
> git.git.
I think the idea was not that you'd get *more* reviews, but that there
would be a group of volunteers doing reviews to ensure that they arrive
fast. Students should have feedback within 1-2 days of the series being
posted.
The other advantages are that it provides a set of fresh eyes, and takes
load off Junio.
I'm not even sure how official we have to make this. In Thomas
Gummerer's case, Michael stepped up with reviews when I couldn't. So
maybe it'll again "just work out". But I would like to take this role,
and leave the "social" mentoring to others.
--
Thomas Rast
tr@thomasrast•ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-26 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-19 6:09 GSoC 2014: Summary so far, discussion starter: how to improve? Thomas Rast
2013-10-19 10:41 ` Christian Couder
2013-10-19 12:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-19 21:51 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-26 8:21 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-10-20 10:00 ` Thomas Gummerer
2013-10-22 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-26 8:14 ` Thomas Rast
2013-11-21 8:36 ` Thomas Rast
2013-11-21 9:43 ` Christian Couder
2013-11-21 10:04 ` Jeff King
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