Ugh, it was terrible I had the worst student... ;-) Of course I'm kidding. (Andrei was my student)
It turned out really well. You need to find good projects (the list Andrei sent looks good) and find a good student. The gsoc process helps with this (there are multiple vetting steps along the way). It's good publicity for the project and you'll likely get something useful at the end. Just be sure to clearly define the projects you're interested in having students work on, then follow the gsoc process. I ended up spending just a few hours a week mentoring Andrei, but there is definitely some overhead for this that a mentor should take into account. You want the student/project to be successful and hopefully become an active community member. Patrick On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick can you share your GSoC experience as a mentor at ZooKeeper? > On Feb 27, 2012 3:31 PM, "Ashish" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Here is a short list of relevant issues: >> > http://s.apache.org/apache-whirr-gsoc-2012 >> > >> > What do you think? >> >> +1. >> >> Would be awesome to have all :) >>
