Hello, as explained some weeks ago, I am planning to do a Mahout course at TU Berlin that involves a theoretical seminar as well as a coding project.
I imagine a setup where small groups students are working on tasks - comparable to the GSoC setup* - implementing features end-to-end (including tests, javadoc, documentation, examples etc.) I cannot guarantee for anything but ideally I would wish for the results to get back into Mahout. I would like to avoid submission of "monster-patches" and get students to learn to interact with version control (git, svn...). Obviously we cannot give each student commit access. On the other hand I do not want to take development out of Mahout to some github project - would work but than the Mahout community would not be able to monitor progress. Is there any way for those students to work in some sort of sandbox area? Any other suggestions? Could github be a viable way to go with patches being broken into reasonably small pieces and submitted to JIRA? Isabel * Of course there will be no money involved. But community interaction, reviewing patches, fixing bugs from JIRA and code quality will be taken into account when computing the credits students get.
