On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> From my conversations with other mentors of projects, the degree of >> coding expertise is relative, as much of the help needed is to get >> around the information that resides on the documentation and such. >> > > We still need one technical mentor able to provide timely advice on the > real code and taking responsibility for it, since GSoC has fixed deadlines. > It is clear from the current discussions that in this respect we are > better-equipped for the "CMIS UCP" project than for "Extension wizard to > import table to database". So I'd favor applications for "CMIS UCP" since > we can offer our students higher expectations of a successful completion in > that case. I am not sure thats a requirement. > > > This might not be up to AOO alone, a lot of people have experienced >> 50% - 70% reduction in proposals from last year. >> > > In general, for Apache projects the pattern is that the bottleneck is in > the number of available technical mentors: applications and available slots > are not so bad (and actually there isn't a decrease for OpenOffice), but > finding the right mentors is problematic across all the ASF projects. How do you know if there is or not a decrease? Last time OpenOffice was on GSOC was in 2005. And there was around 5 successful projects and 2 failed projects. Right now we only have around 3 proposals. > > > Regards, > Andrea. > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
