What money are we putting into this? Cheers,
Uli On 03.12.16 23:16, Rich Bowen wrote: > So, this question was asked several weeks ago, and, so far, we have no > statistics. I wonder if, now that there appears to be some interest > around GSoC 2017 starting up, someone could look back at their notes and > answer some of these questions. > > While it's cool that folks are spending time on GSoC, for the sake of > GSoC, and of the students, it would also be awesome to know whether the > time and money that the ASF puts into this is actually doing something > towards the stated goal of Community Development. > > Or, at the very least, can we make a commitment to track this data going > forward? > > --Rich > > On 11/16/2016 05:18 AM, Nick Burch wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: >>> It would be great to have some kind of statistics on how GSoC helps >>> projects longer term. Do students stick around? Does the code written >>> actually get incorporated into releases? Does it in fact contribute to >>> the mission of Community Development, or is it just a nice summer job >>> for these students? >> >> Do we have a list (maybe somewhere in the comdev private svn?) of >> everyone who has taken part in GSoC? >> >> If so, it'd be fairly easy to annotate that with apache IDs, then see >> who's now on PMCs or who's now a member. Producing sharable statistics >> from that automatically is then easy. (I say this as someone who helped >> update the similar Travel Assistance Committee / TAC ones on Monday!) >> >> Not sure if it's easy to find out the "last commit date" for people, to >> check for the "still around" part (eg for people who got committership >> during GSoc, maybe on a branch), but I know where infra are to ask... >> >> Nick >> >> PS FWIW, within Tika we've certainly had a few GSoC people stick around! >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
