16 Jun
2009
16 Jun
'09
9:26 p.m.
Hello GSoC students,
Time flies fast when you're having fun: only 3 weeks left until the
midterm evaluation. Don't forget that, by July 6th, you should all have
a project with at least 30% of the functionalities proposed in your
application, which will help us estimate whether you will be able to
finish your work according to the plan or not. Also, don't forget about
the (at least) weekly commits requirement, very important for getting
proper feedback, and about updating the wiki when you have news.
Note that we believe some of the projects are not really advancing as
expected, but it's probably not too late to catch up. Please communicate
with one of the mentors in case you get stuck.
Hoping to see some nice code committed this week,
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
17 Jun
17 Jun
7:07 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hello GSoC students,
Time flies fast when you're having fun: only 3 weeks left until the
midterm evaluation. Don't forget that, by July 6th, you should all have
a project with at least 30% of the functionalities proposed in your
application, which will help us estimate whether you will be able to
finish your work according to the plan or not. Also, don't forget about
the (at least) weekly commits requirement, very important for getting
proper feedback, and about updating the wiki when you have news.
Note that we believe some of the projects are not really advancing as
expected, but it's probably not too late to catch up. Please communicate
with one of the mentors in case you get stuck.
Hoping to see some nice code committed this week,
I didn't see much gsoc projects related communication on the devs mailing
list (may be they are communicating with the relevant mentors privately).
Anyway, just wanted to mention that discussing matters on the devs list is
one of the best ways to keep everybody informed about what you are doing and
it lets developers help you more. I know for a fact that devs list helped me
a lot for making my gsoc project(s) successfull :)
Just my humble opinion.
Thanks.
- Asiri
12:19 p.m.
I personally agree with you.I was interested in one the GSoc projects and I
did not have a lot news about it.
It would be great if there are more communication o the mailling list.
Regards,
Keerthan Muthurasa
2009/6/17 Asiri Rathnayake <asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu
<sergiu(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
Hello GSoC students,
Time flies fast when you're having fun: only 3 weeks left until the
midterm evaluation. Don't forget that, by July 6th, you should all have
a project with at least 30% of the functionalities proposed in your
application, which will help us estimate whether you will be able to
finish your work according to the plan or not. Also, don't forget about
the (at least) weekly commits requirement, very important for getting
proper feedback, and about updating the wiki when you have news.
Note that we believe some of the projects are not really advancing as
expected, but it's probably not too late to catch up. Please communicate
with one of the mentors in case you get stuck.
Hoping to see some nice code committed this week,
I didn't see much gsoc projects related communication on the devs mailing
list (may be they are communicating with the relevant mentors privately).
Anyway, just wanted to mention that discussing matters on the devs list is
one of the best ways to keep everybody informed about what you are doing
and
it lets developers help you more. I know for a fact that devs list helped
me
a lot for making my gsoc project(s) successfull :)
Just my humble opinion.
Thanks.
- Asiri
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12:52 p.m.
Hi,
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu
<sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
+1 There should be more communication on the
mailing lists.
I need to remind the students that they should report weekly
progress(Eg: blog posts on http://gsoc.xwiki.org/ ).
Students should also publish their binaries(where possible) at least
twice a month so that more people can give a quick feedback.
IMO, gsoc projects lack a tool like jira that makes it easier for the
student to organize his tasks and for the others to monitor the progress.
Thanks,
Florin Ciubotaru
Hello GSoC students,
Time flies fast when you're having fun: only 3 weeks left until the
midterm evaluation. Don't forget that, by July 6th, you should all have
a project with at least 30% of the functionalities proposed in your
application, which will help us estimate whether you will be able to
finish your work according to the plan or not. Also, don't forget about
the (at least) weekly commits requirement, very important for getting
proper feedback, and about updating the wiki when you have news.
Note that we believe some of the projects are not really advancing as
expected, but it's probably not too late to catch up. Please communicate
with one of the mentors in case you get stuck.
Hoping to see some nice code committed this week,
I didn't see much gsoc projects related communication on the devs mailing
list (may be they are communicating with the relevant mentors privately).
Anyway, just wanted to mention that discussing matters on the devs list is
one of the best ways to keep everybody informed about what you are doing and
it lets developers help you more. I know for a fact that devs list helped me
a lot for making my gsoc project(s) successfull :)
Just my humble opinion.
Thanks.
- Asiri
_______________________________________________
devs mailing list
devs(a)xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
1:09 p.m.
On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote:
Hi,
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Posting on this list is even better than blogging on gsoc.xwiki.org.
You'll get a much wider audience and most people don't know or won't
go to gsoc.xwiki.org
I'd really prefer that GSOCers integrates with current xwiki dev
practices rather than invent new ones.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu
<sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
+1 There should be more communication on the
mailing lists.
I need to remind the students that they should report weekly
progress(Eg: blog posts on http://gsoc.xwiki.org/ ). Hello GSoC students,
Time flies fast when you're having fun: only 3 weeks left until the
midterm evaluation. Don't forget that, by July 6th, you should all
have
a project with at least 30% of the functionalities proposed in your
application, which will help us estimate whether you will be able to
finish your work according to the plan or not. Also, don't forget
about
the (at least) weekly commits requirement, very important for
getting
proper feedback, and about updating the wiki when you have news.
Note that we believe some of the projects are not really advancing
as
expected, but it's probably not too late to catch up. Please
communicate
with one of the mentors in case you get stuck.
Hoping to see some nice code committed this week,
I didn't see much gsoc projects related communication on the devs
mailing
list (may be they are communicating with the relevant mentors
privately).
Anyway, just wanted to mention that discussing matters on the devs
list is
one of the best ways to keep everybody informed about what you are
doing and
it lets developers help you more. Students should also publish their binaries(where
possible) at least
twice a month so that more people can give a quick feedback.
IMO, gsoc projects lack a tool like jira that makes it easier for the
student to organize his tasks and for the others to monitor the
progress.
They should use the exact same tools we use for development. JIRA is
there for them too as for any project. Since GSOCers are supposed to
use the Sandbox SVN they're also supposed to use the SandBox JIRA
project.
I think one pb is that GSOCers are quite isolated in their practices:
- usage of gsoc.myxwiki.org
- usage of IRC
These 2 practices don't generate visibility to the rest of the xwiki
community automatically (people have to voluntarily go there to learn
and people don't do this).
For ex no important decision should be taken on IRC. You can use IRC
to discuss but any important decision MUST go through the mailing list
for agreement or simply to let people know and have a chance to react.
Thanks
-Vincent
> I know for a fact that devs list helped me
> a lot for making my gsoc project(s) successfull :)
>
> Just my humble opinion.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Asiri
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Asiri Rathnayake -
Florin Ciubotaru -
Keerthan MUTHURASA -
Sergiu Dumitriu -
Vincent Massol