[Adium-devl] Summer of Code, start your engines!

Andreas Monitzer soc at monitzer.com
Thu Apr 12 12:19:12 UTC 2007


On Apr 12, 2007, at 14:10, Chris Forsythe wrote:

> - Updates from students every 2 weeks as to the progress of their
> project. This is so that it will be easier to tell if a project is
> starting to have problems, so that we can be proactive rather than
> reactive. Reports either in the biweekly irc meetings or via the  
> mailing
> list should be sent either by the student or mentor, preferably the  
> student.

Maybe the updates should happen more frequently to the specific  
mentor? Like at least once per week via IM or email.

> - Branches named after project names and not student names.
> - No SoC specific mailing list. These people are part of our project
> now, I do not mind the extra traffic on adium-devl, I'm hoping  
> everyone
> else will not mind it either, it should be low volume.
> - Keeping the SoC blog and the main blog together. Basically, getting
> everyone to sign up for blogger is what this boils down to, and then
> prefixing the subject of a post with "SoC-Project Name". This goes  
> along
> with the last suggestion, keeping everyone on the same page and  
> working
> within our already setup infrastructure could be beneficial.
>
>     I'm sure there are other items we can come up with, but  
> basically I
> think this would make things a tad more cohesive this year. Thoughts?

I agree on the other parts.

andy





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