[Adium-devl] Summer of Code '09

[Augie Fackler]

+1. The only other thought I have is if we really have a couple of  
solid ideas, we could sign up and only take (at most) 2 students, and  
be prepared to walk away if we don't have really strong self-motivated  
students applying.


On Feb 11, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> The same thing is happening to Growl as well (hence my speaking up).  
> My
> opinion is that part of the problem is all of the easy problems are  
> gone,
> and part of it is that it's just busy during this time of year.  
> There's not
> a lot of new developers coming forward like there used to be as well  
> for
> both projects.
>
> I'd suggest telling google to give all of the mentor spots to  
> pidgin, since
> that'll help Adium. As to the drop off in activity, I think a  
> discussion
> regarding this has to happen at some point to help the project move  
> forward,
> otherwise it'll just continue. I'd say new thread on that though.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>       So, it's happening. Personally, I don't think we're in any
>> reasonable state to participate. The graphs at
>> https://www.ohloh.net/p/adium/contributors paint a depressing  
>> picture of
>> the project right now, and even when we *did* have more active  
>> contributors
>> last summer, I don't feel we (I?) did as good a job mentoring as we  
>> have in
>> previous years. With luck I'll be getting a job in the relatively  
>> near
>> future, which will inevitably lead to my commit rate dropping off  
>> some. At
>> that point we'll have basically nobody working consistently on Adium.
>>
>>       Anyone have some light to counter my gloom with? ;)
>>
>>
>>                               David
>>
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