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I think it could be useful to learn from other projects' handling of |
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SoC. The FFmpeg project has a list of "qualification tasks" for the |
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students to complete before they can accepted into SoC, as you can see |
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From [1]. |
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The tasks are minor tasks that don't require a lot of time at hand, but |
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gives a good way to judge if the person is in for the experience or the |
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money, and might be able to cut the deal even for Gentoo devs if that is |
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really wanted. |
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How to implement it for Gentoo? Well I think we have the tool already: |
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Bugzilla. We just need to add a keyword SOC_QUALIFICATION_TASK; when a |
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developer think of a working qualification task, he can add the keyword |
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and CC the soc team or something like that. |
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Then the users can deal with the problems whenever they want, for the |
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next SoC, even during the year. When they submit their application, we |
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ask users to put the link to the bug that represented the qualification |
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task they completed. |
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To make the checking more easy, we could make sure that the person who |
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completed the task is listed in the Whiteboard, and that only Gentoo |
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devs can change that for the bugs for qualification task (letting only |
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devs opening them, or cloning the feature requests from user that become |
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a SoC qualification task, for instance). |
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Then get a tracker that is blocked by all the SoC qualification task |
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bugs, monitored by the SoC team, that can make sure how stuff is going |
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with the qualification tasks, and finally add a default query for the |
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tasks to the documentation about SoC. |
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I'm sure we can easily get some qualification tasks on; with a bit more |
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work we might also get qualification points (so that for instance minor |
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tasks alone can't cut the deal). |
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Maybe a bit complex, but I think it might be worth discussing. |
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[1] http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2008 |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |