Hello, GSoC students, As you all know, we are in the middle of the "Community Bonding" period of the GSoC 2018 program's timeline [1].
This is a very important period in which you are supposed to get familiar with the XWiki project, read documentation (APIs, processes, development practices, etc.), setup tooling and development environments, figure out the way the project is organized and what is the best approach for you to make an impact. At the end of this period, you should be ready and productive to start working on your cool project. (Nobody will complain if you have already started ;) ). Even more so, the community bonding period is about getting to know the community and helping the community to know you. So, if you have not yet introduced yourself or did not get the chance to exchange some initial thoughts with your mentor(s), now is the time to do it. You need to remember that GSoC is not a bounty program, but a community building one, so the main objective is not simply to deliver, at a certain deadline, a feature, but to be integrated in the open source community you have joined and help it grow (through your contributions). As such, on the technical side, your objective for this period is to get at least 1 of your Pull Requests (average size/complexity, must contain a few lines of code) to get reviewed and accepted either in the main repositories (platform/commons/rendering) or in one of the existing Contrib extensions. The PR needs to be associated to an existing Jira issue (bug/improvement). Make sure you read and follow the Student Guidelines, specifically the section dedicated to accepted students [2]. Reminder1: The deadline is the 14th of May. Reminder2: The community bonding period is also an eliminatory period. Students that choose to stay silent may be considered for elimination from the program. Thanks, Eduard ---------- [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [2] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines#HSuggestedwayofworkingforacceptedGSoCstudents
