[Adium-devl] Gearing up for SoC

[Colin Barrett]

I got my first email today from an interested SoC student (he was  
asking about ticket #173 and such). Got me thinking about exactly  
what we're going to do to handle the SoC applications, and then the  
students themselves.

Applications:
  - Should we set up a separate list, direct students' questions to  
devl, or just have them email individual mentors directly. The first  
option seems the best to me. I would like somewhere to discuss  
applications though, but that may be best done on devl (or google may  
provide us with something, who knows). If we do the third option, we  
should probably tag projects we're interested in mentoring with our  
names, so inquiries get to the right people.

Accepted students:
  - I suggest setting up a Planet for them. Having blogs worked very  
well last year for Gaim, I thought.
  - Should we give them their own branch, all branched from the same  
r? We should consider how we're gonna handle that (e.g. externals,  
merging back in, etc).
  - Because of the way Adium is set up, students may be interacting  
with each others code. How should we handle this, as far as mentoring  
goes? Should that mentor get both students? If that's not possible,  
should the two mentors work in some kind of team, managing both  
students? This is also kind of against what google has stated about  
group projects (i.e. that you may not apply for a project as a  
group), but I don't think it should be too much of a problem, since  
the students are clearly working on two different projects, and just  
collaborating on design issues (hopefully :o)

Any other thoughts? I think we all want this to go smoothly, so lets  
try and think of any problems beforehand so we don't get caught with  
our pants down.

-Colin