Hi Manoj, this question is best asked on the Spark mailing lists (copied). From a formal point of view all that counts is your proposal in Melange once applications start but your mentor or the project you wish to contribute to may have additional requirements.
Cheers, Uli On 2015-03-03 08:54, Manoj Kumar wrote: > Hello, > > I am Manoj, a prospective student from the Apache Spark project. I have > been contributing to Spark and discussing the project idea with my mentor > for some time now. The tentative project has a number of JIRA's associated > with it. I would still like to know if it is necessary to create an > umbrella JIRA with all the other JIRA's linked to it (and tagged with > gsoc) or is it sufficient to just upload a proposal when the registration > opens. > > > Regards >