Rick Hillegas wrote:
Thanks for the clarifications, Anurag. It sounds as though students
will assign themselves to JIRAs and attempt to make incremental
progress on issues. I'm sensing that students will get points based on
the number of patches they convince us to commit, and not on the
number of issues they resolve.
They will be qualified for the small prize meant of every contributer as
soon as they get one
committed patch. But the grand prize will be based on the value one
contributer adds
by his contribution. This grand prize will be across all open source
project and will be
manually evaluated (number of contributions may be considered but it
won't be the only criterion)
Are there any incentives to keep the students engaged with the
community after the contest ends?
Nothing specifically is planned for this but hopefully few of them will
find it interesting enough
to continue contributions.
Regards,
-Rick
Anurag shekhar wrote:
Student will have to register them self at mention the project they
plan to participate and
also provide the id which they will be using to submit patches. They
can pickup and
existing issue or a new issue. Any committed patch will be considered
as one contribution.
It will be upto students to defend the patch in developer mailing list.
They will need help similar to any contributer needs from the
community (like getting
doubt clarified, review and commit of patch)
anurag
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Anurag shekhar wrote:
SUN India is planning a contest for students to contribute to some
select open source projects. Will it be ok if apache derby is
included in it ?
The contest will be starting sometimes in aug and will last for 4-5
month.
Each contributer will receive a small award there will be few early
bird awards
and a grand prize for most valuable contributer.
anurag
Hi Anurag,
Could you give us more details about what you expect the students
will do and what kind of support they will need from the community?
Thanks,
-Rick
