Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:57:37PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Requirement: familiarity with www.d.o infrastructure and with web >> > development in general >> >> Could the bar be lowered here? I doubt there are many people out there >> with www.d.o infrastructure knowledge. But there are possibly a lot >> more, who'd be able to get familiar with it reasonably quickly, >> f.e. during the getting to know each other phase of GSoC. >> >> And then we could add that "The student will become familiar with the >> www.d.o infrastructure, <some good words about www.d.o; why being >> familiar with it is good, etc.. sadly I'm not>" - which could look much >> more appealing, no? > > I'll leave this to Frances to pick it up. > > But in general, I'm a big fan of the principle of "as part of your > application, please provide us a patch doing $trivial_thing". It is > part of the clang proposal by Sylvestre, and we have both shamelessly > stolen the idea from what VLC people are doing. > > So, answering to yours, we might lower the bar. But if it is expected > that it is easy to get that knowledge, then IMHO we should also ask for > a trivial patch as part of the application and expect that students will > get the needed knowledge *before* applying.
I wholeheartedly agree with that. Perhaps my phrasing wasn't the best, but what you just described above is great, I just think that obtaining the familiarity could be listed elsewhere than a strict requirement, and instead, a patch or something similar should be asked from the student as part of the application. That reads better, and accomplishes something very similar, indeed. -- |8] _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
