> My biggest motivation for requiring weekly status updates is that in the past > years I had a hard time following the GSoC projects I was not involved with > directly. At WorldForge, we required weekly reports to the mentor at first > and then decided that the weekly reports should go to the developer mailing > list. That kept everybody informed what was going on.
I would say this seems sensible - the weekly reports would not necessarily have to be greatly detailed, but I imagine it would help to keep students on track, and would enable the rest of the community to know what's going on with the students. From experience, I would say that I probably only tended to post on the lists when I had specific problems, or patches to submit, so a weekly update would have likely resulted in more interaction. Cheers, -- Owen Rudge http://www.owenrudge.net/