Thank you Alex! Just one question remains: you said you dont know how many students you'll be able to select until the application process finishes. How does it work?
And one more thing: is there any critical part of Django that needs housekeeping? Thanks again. Elayne. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Alex Gaynor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Elayne Morais <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This is my first time at GSoC and I'm sure that coding for Django will > > be very interesting. As I don't have experience with Django I thought > > the best project for me would be doing some housekeeping, which at the > > same time would give me a wider understanding of Django inside out. > > However, I read others students had the same idea, so here are my > > questions: > > > > - how many students Django will be able to select? > > We don't know until after the application process finishes. > > > - will be possible more than one student working at the same project? > > (like 2 students doing housekeeping on different parts of the code) > > Maybe. Housekeeping would probably be ok to have multiple students on > (especially if they were in different parts of the codebase). > > > - do I need to be specific on what part of the code I'll be doing the > > housekeeping, or I can just say I'll be doing a general housekeeping? > > My concern is about the timeline: how will I be able to say I have > > finished coding? > > Yes, your proposal should specify what areas of DJango you'll be doing > housekeeping in, including references to specific tickets where > possible. > > As for how to know when you're done on this project it'd probably just > be until you've either run out of bugs (god help us ;)) or the time is > over, housekeeping is obviuosly a little open ended so you're project > would mostly be judged by how well you're doing at finding and closing > tickets. > > > - can I keep on coding for Django after GSoC if I want? > > > > Absolutely, one of the major goals of GSOC is to get students involved > in open source even beyond the end of their project. > > > Thank you all. > > > > Elayne. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<django-developers%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > > > > Alex > > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your > right to say it." -- Voltaire > "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero > "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you > want" -- Me > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<django-developers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
