Hi Kai, Kai Blin schreef: > I was thinking about strongly encouraging people to post their project > proposal to wine-devel prior to applying, so more developers can have a look > at it and see if it's doable or not and offer suggestions. > Sounds like a good idea, the work you have to do in a SoC is usually underestimated by a factor of 2. :-) > I know some projects did an introductory quiz to figure out the student's > coding skills, I'm not convinced the knowledge needed for Wine can be tested > in a quiz. What do you think? > I don't like the idea of a quiz as well, what would be a better test is to get a small patch into wine, perhaps adding a testcase to the component they want to work on. It shouldn't be big, but it proves they can get code into wine. > Another thing that didn't turn out too well last time is that it was really > hard to figure out what was going on during the summer. I have a few ideas on > how we could address this. > > Lots of other projects had their student write a weekly public progress > report. I think we should require the same. This will probably help keeping > people updated, and might help spotting problems early. > Personal experience here, it might be good for some people, but for me I just told when I made some progress. Perhaps setting up a wine SoC blog where you post every week what you're doing? > According to the wiki page, we already require a post-mortem report on the > project, however I can't remember seeing much of those this year. We should > make sure those are written next time. We might think of a better name for > the report, post-mortem sounds like the project is dead after the summer, we > want people to keep working. > I'm all for it. Perhaps call it reflection report? > Last year, some of the students set up a public git repo on repo.or.cz. I was > thinking about making that a requirement for next year. This would allow > people to review work in progress. > Agreed, I'm for a public git repo. If it's needed I can write some instructions on how to set a repo up in the wine wiki.
Cheers, Maarten.