Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSOC] Welcoming our GSoC students

Paul, mentors, Just to get it out of the way, please don`t confuse gsoc.myxwiki.org (the wiki I`ve just deprecated) with gsoc.xwiki.org (redirect to the GoogleSummerOfCode space on dev.xwiki.org). I actually found out about gsoc.myxwiki.org this year, noticed that it was updated for 2011 and thought that we could use it for 2012 as well. However, after a better look at it, I`ve noticed that it has been used only around 2009 and it was quite abandoned (and full of spam users), most likely due to the fact that (as Vincent and Thomas underlined) we want students to behave just like regular contributors/committers. Regarding the need for a place where to monitor and report the student's progress, we could have that on devs.xwiki.org as well but (as you suggested) maybe under the GoogleSummerOfCode space. There really is no need for a separate wiki (duplicates users and isolates visibility). So an idea could be to extend the ProjectClass by adding a new TextArea field (i.e. 'progress') where the student and mentor can list milestones and general progress of the student that is 'assigned' to the project. We mark the project's status as 'Selected' and, at the end of the summer, we update the status field to 'Successfully terminated' or 'Failed'. This workflow is suggested by the current design of the ProjectClass, it is only missing a 'progress' field as I`ve just explained. Does the TextArea field offer enough flexibility for reporting the student's progress? Any other fields that might be missing? Thanks, Eduard On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote: