On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > > This brings up an important issue. We cannot do GSoC without mentors. I > had hoped that people populating the "ideas" list would volunteer to > mentor for their projects. > > But so far the possibilities are: > > - Stefan > > - me, who has already promised to be stingy > > - Matthieu, who also cited time constraints > > - Junio, who contributed some project ideas, but who in the past has > declined to mentor in order to remain impartial as the maintainer > who evaluates student results (which I think is quite reasonable) > > So...basically 1 mentor and 2 reticent maybes? That doesn't look good.
Indeed, the mentor panel looks particularly weak this year, if nobody can afford the time for proper mentoring. Even though I can indirectly help by giving reviews at a more hand-holding level than usual, there is a limit. And I definitely do not foresee acting as a mentor myself. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
