On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:45:05PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: > > If we are serious about doing this next year, I think we need to develop a > > stronger website around GSOC. As I read the requirements, it appears to > > me that to be competitive we need to have a more fully-developed > > infrastructure. > > I agree. As i was in the middle of the whole thing, i suppose i don't > have enough perspective;
FWIW, I think it's something like 20% of project applications are accepted. > the only thing that comes to my mind at the > moment is that our CG is a bit messy and he patch procedures should be > more automated and unified, and the whole process described more > clearly than it is now. > Can you share your thoughts? That's pretty much it. I'd split it into a few separate tasks, though: 1. what are the pain points involved in experienced developers contributing to lilypond? Fix those first -- making it a more fun process might keep experienced developers around longer, but also anything that bugs us is likely to annoy or confuse new contributors. git-cl is the biggest contender here, along with patch management in general. 2. does the CG accurately reflect our current process? hint: it doesn't. The "quick start" description is flawed (there's something off about the printed stuff about lily-git.tcl), and even chapter 1 is inaccurate (it suggests that we have a "mentoring" program, which frankly we don't). 3. once the above two points are nailed down -- which will likely take 3-6 months -- *then* I think it's worth inviting/begging somebody new to start contributing as a programmer, *with* a dedicated mentor who will specifically find+fix pain points in that process. > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Graham Percival > <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > > It might be good to wait a week to see what projects were > > accepted, > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2012 ? Somebody on another venue pointed out that it'll take a few hours or days for the complete list to show up; at that time, it was only showing the first 30% of accepted projects. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
