Hi, I don't know am I qualified enough or not, but I would like to help in reviewing pull request. I can help with code, documentation, testing for sure. But I will be engaged between 16th Nov to 10th Dec. Other than that period, I am more than happy to help.
- Hector 2011/10/23 Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.cer...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Google has invited us to participate in Google Code-In [0], which is a > > contest that runs from November 21 to January 16 for pre-university > > students aged 13-17. I think we should participate, but only if > > enough people are willing to help. This is a lot different from > > Google Summer of Code. For this program, we would have to create > > several "tasks", which are then completed by the students. The tasks > > should be relatively small, independent activities. This can include > > things like fixing documentation and writing tests, or just fixing > > some issue in the issue tracker. See [1] for more information. > > > > Since this is a contest to complete the most tasks, we need to have a > > high turnaround rate on the review of the tasks. According to [1], > > the rate should be no more than 36 hours per task. This means that if > > we participate, we will have to have enough people wiling to help > > review pull requests so that we can achieve this over the entire > > coding period. There is no specific person-to-person mentoring like > > with GSoC. Rather, we as a community pass or fail each task. > > > > Also, we would need to come up with a list of tasks, but this would > > not be too hard. We would just create a label in the issue tracker, > > and mark any good issues with that label, and also create new issues > > for other ideas. > > > > Finally, I want to remind that these are younger students than were in > > GSoC. They will need more hand holding, and the quality of their work > > will be much less (and sometimes, it will have to be rejected > > outright, but remember that unlike GSoC, this is a contest). > > > > So would enough people be willing to help out with this? GSoC > > students, this is a good chance to take your knowledge of SymPy and > > apply it to others. I recommend everyone read through [1] to get a > > better idea about this program. If you can or can't contribute, it > > would be great if you could let me know soon, as the deadline to apply > > is November 1. Especially for the core developers, if you think you > > won't have time to help out much, if you could let me know, that would > > be great, so I could judge our potential manpower. > > Aaron, Mateusz and I are now at the Google Mentor Summit, and we all > agreed to go for it. > > We can use our github pull requests for the review, so we just need to > finish our review web app (http://reviews.sympy.org/) to run tests > automatically for each pull request, and we should be just fine. > > Would anyone be willing to help out with the reviews? In the > application we need to write how many mentors we have available. > > Ondrej > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > -- -Regards Hector Whenever you think you can or you can't, in either way you are right. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
