Hi Hector, On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Hector <hector1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know am I qualified enough or not, but I would like to help in
Absolutely you are qualified. Anybody who wants to help is welcomed and since you already contributed to SymPy, you know how things work. > 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. Excellent, thanks! We'll count with you. Ondrej > > - 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. > -- 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.
