On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, elayne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. >> > 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]. >> 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. >
Google assigns us some number of slots. From my memory: 2 years ago is was 3/4 slots, last year we had 6. We don't know how many we'll get this year. As for "critical" it's a bit hard to say, if anything were truly violently broken we wouldn't be preparing for a release ;) that being said the admin and the ORM tend to have the most open bugs of any component, mostly because they are 2 of the most prominent parts of the framework. THe best way to tell is to browse through trac's ticket browser: http://code.djangoproject.com/query 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
