Amir Michail wrote: > Hi, > The discussion on this has been quite useful to us. I have > contacted other academics at UNSW CSE and have shown them this > thread to see what they think.
> BTW, there may be university regulations about whether we can > require students to submit patches in a public forum. > Some students -- particularly weaker ones -- > may not want the world to see their code submissions. > The separate student list idea is good but it may be better to keep > the list archives off the web to encourage students to post > questions. I suppose intelligent questions would propagate to the > main development list, which is publicly available in any case. Why not run the student list yourselves, so you are in total control of it. That way they can always retreat to the 'safety' of your own, private list if they don't like the look of the big, bad world. Indeed, I suspect that you and your students will find a private mailing list with 200+ active participants to be a stimulating environment in its own right. Thereafter, encourage your students to subscribe to the public lyx-devel list, to ask questions of us and to submit patches. If they know that their patches will definitely be of interest to us but that our 'quality control' is quite high then I suspect that submissions will be relatively rare at first. Nonetheless, the students will become bolder as they see things being rolled into the main tree. > The actual class starts March 1, 2004. If we shall attempt this > experiment, I will contact you again a bit before then. (How early > should I contact you before class start?) If you proceed down the route I suggest above, then I don't see any special requirements of us other than a willingless to deal with a flood of correspondence after March 1. In other words, contact us as you see fit. -- Angus
