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Hi all! |
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As always, Gentoo plans to participate in the Google Summer of Code |
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2019. We are looking for new project ideas and are always open for |
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new mentors. |
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1. Project ideas |
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GSoC projects should be suitable for 3 months worth of work for |
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a student, taking into account time required for students to get in |
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touch with the project, to learn some details, to fix mistakes and |
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make improvements. Most students are not yet seasoned developers, |
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so their coding rate will be likely slower than yours. |
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Usually projects are something more complicated than just writing |
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some ebuilds, however if non-trivial ebuild related work is |
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required, e.g. to write new eclasses and adapt existing packages to |
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use them (or add new ones), this should do too. |
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Ideas from previous years may be reused, but this should not be |
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abused, since Gentoo moves forward and we have new stuff to do. |
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If you have an idea, but can't be a mentor, please still tell us |
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about it, we'll try to find a mentor later. |
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Ideas should be put to our wiki: [1]. |
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The page contains ideas adding howto. |
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2. Mentors |
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If you want to be a mentor, welcome! It is not necessary to be a |
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Gentoo developer in order to be a mentor, but project must be |
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Gentoo related. |
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Mentoring requires some time. It depends much on a student, but is |
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usually within 4-10 hours per week. If you don't have that much |
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time, but still want to help, you may become a backup mentor. |
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Students often have 2 mentors to eliminate bus factor and to |
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improve expertise in a project. |
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Please keep in mind that GSoC is not just about new code, but about |
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bringing new people to community and we have developers which where |
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GSoC students in the past. So time invested in students will result |
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not only in some problems solved, but into bringing new people to |
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our community and strengthening ties with existing participants. |
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Mentors should enlist themselves on the wiki: [2]. |
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If you have any questions or proposals, feel free to reply to this |
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e-mail, or contact us via #gentoo-soc IRC channel on FreeNode[3], |
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or by writing to project's alias[4]. |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Ideas |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Mentors |
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[3] http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=gentoo-soc |
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[4] mailto:soc-mentors@g.o |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |