Re: GSoC mentors once more

[Urs Liska]

Hi Jan-Peter,

Am 14.03.2016 um 07:54 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt:
> Hi Urs,
>
> you asked me off-list, if I would be a mentor (in hogwards they are
> called dementor, aren't they?) - I didn't answer yet, so I do it
> on-list now. I would be generally ready with being a mentor for the
> cross-voice-spanner-application.

That would be great!
I don't know how many slots we might eventually get, but we will never
get more slots than stated mentors.

> Still, I would like to know, how much effort would come up with it to me?
> Well, answering questions (or delegating them) and reviewing code
> should be no problem :-)

Lacking experience I actually don't know. Maybe David Kastrup might want
to drop in some comments here?
>From what I read in the guidelines (and thinking about it) one should
not underrate it. But we may well try to share significant parts of the
work as a developer community (which is of course the spirit of GSoC).
IISC the most important (and least predictable) task of the mentor is to
keep an eye on the project, to keep in touch with the student and ensure
that his work is proceeding sufficiently.

Any coding issues may freely be shared among developers, and Google
explicitly endorses to have code review shared by the devs and not only
been done by the mentor.

So depending on the project and the student it *may* be a rather easy
task. Or not.

Urs

>
> Cheers
> Jan-Peter
>
> Am 14. März 2016 01:08:09 MEZ, schrieb Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
>
>     Given the advent of a fifth potential applicant I find it inacceptable 
> that we don't seem to make any progress in raising our mentor number beyond 
> two.
>
>     Is it really true that I am the only one pushing this?
>
>     Urs
>
>
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