Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Reinhard Pötz <reinh...@apache.org> wrote: >> ...The week before the ApacheCon we've kicked off our second student >> project in cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology. The six >> students will work on profiling support for Cocoon (see >> http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/student-project-ideas/cocoon3-profiling.html >> and >> http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/student-project-ideas/cocoon3-profiling-ui.html)... > > Just curious, who is "we"?
We comprises Steven and me. > This sounds like a cool initiative, but I'm wondering what the roles > are, are you mentoring those students and helping them shape their > code into JIRA-able contributions? Or will they participate in > discussion here once their problem analysis is done? yes, I guess it will take the students 2 - 4 weeks to really understand the problem and possible solutions. Then they will keep this list posted with their insights, proposals and patches and everybody will get a chance to comment. The plan is to work in 2 week iterations until the end of June. This will mean about 4 - 6 public iterations. > There's nothing hidden behind my question - just curious, with my > Cocoon PMC member hat on, about the community aspects of this. Feel > free to point me to previous discussions if I missed something. Basically the same setting as last time (StAX pipelines). The idea of working together on open source projects was developed by Alexander Schatten, an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology (TU), Werner Guttmann, my business partner and Castor committer, Lukas Lang a student at the TU and colleague at Indoqa and me at the beginning of the last year. Werner already mentored two "Castor groups" last year and as said above Steven and I also had one Cocoon (StAX) group (http://cocoon.markmail.org/message/dbb3uvczi2bpzplm). So far all projects were successful and we got a good feedback from the students: They can solve real world problems, are guided by experienced developers and get familiar with open source software development. They also learned a lot when they had to discuss their ideas with Sylvain. The project proposals they will be working on (http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/student-project-ideas/cocoon3-profiling.html and http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/student-project-ideas/cocoon3-profiling-ui.html) are both available and any feedback on them and of course on the process in general are very appreciated. -- Reinhard Pötz Managing Director, {Indoqa} GmbH http://www.indoqa.com/en/people/reinhard.poetz/ Member of the Apache Software Foundation Apache Cocoon Committer, PMC member reinh...@apache.org ________________________________________________________________________
