Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSOC] [Status Request] Middle of Community Bonding period

Hello students, As you probably already know, we are almost at the middle of the community bonding period [1]. From the previous mail [2] and XWiki's GSoC page [3], you also know that this is the time where you learn about XWiki's development processes, code and community and, to better understand the code, you must fix at least one jira issue related directly or indirectly to your project. This is in no way a radio silence period, quite the contrary. In other words, you need to: 1. Answer this mail :) 2. Create a Design page [4] regarding your project 3. Start idling on the IRC channel 4. Start chatting on the mailing list and on IRC about your project and other aspects of XWiki that you don't yet understand 5. Get your hands dirty by diving into the code and fixing at least one Jira issue (2 more weeks left) 6. Talk about your project What we want from you with this mail is to see where you stand with regard to what has been written above. We want to know what you don`t understand about XWiki, what issue you are planning to undertake, what you want to start with, etc. It helps you more to start saying incorrect things and fixing them early instead of staying quiet and making a big bad choice towards the end. And a last thing, please remember that one-to-one conversations with your mentor are not encouraged and are actually harmful to the success of your project. Talk to the community, ask for help early and life will be sweeter :) Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012 [2] http://markmail.org/thread/u6jhsqwxn6uitcjo [3] http://gsoc.xwiki.org [4] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/WebHome