On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not about a student having interest, it's about the project being able > to show them the way of community led open source development. The goal of > GSoC is not to get free labor for projects, it is to expose students to > community development methodologies. In a project with a single committer > and no potential for people who are not already ASF committers to become a > committer I'm not sure this can be done.
My only concern with Labs projects entering GSoC is that no matter how good job the student do, he will never get the committership reward, and will indeed look more like "free labor for projects", I also think that the students working on labs project will most likely abandon the project after the fact because they don't become committers and there is not a "community" around the code. Having said that, I'm not sure it's fair to not allow lab projects to participate in GSoC, particularly if they already have in past years. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
