hi
As a part of the project we are going to try and get onto the GSoC program again this year.
Jeff Sheltren and Karsten Wade have offered to do the work needed towards that goal. I've offered to help in short bursts with specific things as and when they need anything.
One thing that would be good to get is : a list of the top 3 things every SIG would like to see done as a part of the GSoC effort; These are just idea, concepts and pending ToDo's SIG specific. Please send them to this list, and we can co-ordinate from there.
When trying to put tasks together, try and estimate how long these are going to take and then divide them upto 4 to 6 weeks worth of a junior developers typical velocity. Typically, getting an accurate idea of task-time involves actually starting to do the work - but please dont go down that route as yet. A reasonable process for now would be to think about how long it might take you, just off the top of your head - and then multiply that by 3. That should cover the time it takes folks to get familiar with our process' and also the relative velocity of someone much junior doing the same piece of work.
regards
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
One thing that would be good to get is : a list of the top 3 things every SIG would like to see done as a part of the GSoC effort; These are just idea, concepts and pending ToDo's SIG specific. Please send them to this list, and we can co-ordinate from there.
Thanks for sending this out, Karanbir. If anyone from the SIGs has questions about the GSOC process, or would like to bounce project ideas off someone, please feel free to email (we have a list here: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-gsoc). Or find Karsten or myself on IRC in #centos-gsoc on Freenode (Nicks: quaid or Jeff_S).
Looking forward to seeing all your ideas!
-Jeff
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On 02/10/2015 06:19 AM, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
One thing that would be good to get is : a list of the top 3 things every SIG would like to see done as a part of the GSoC effort; These are just idea, concepts and pending ToDo's SIG specific. Please send them to this list, and we can co-ordinate from there.
Thanks for sending this out, Karanbir. If anyone from the SIGs has questions about the GSOC process, or would like to bounce project ideas off someone, please feel free to email (we have a list here: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-gsoc). Or find Karsten or myself on IRC in #centos-gsoc on Freenode (Nicks: quaid or Jeff_S).
Looking forward to seeing all your ideas!
It's definitely better to have too many ideas rather than not enough.
Some students will also get new ideas in reading yours and talking with people.
We've had good success in Fedora over the years having a good portion of the students' projects actually be done in the upstream. The ideas you have therefore can happen in your upstream codebase as well as within CentOS itself, with the goal that it's something helpful for the SIG and CentOS community overall.
Thanks,
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