Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13)
From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:11
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:quoted
The short undiplomatic version of that is that our mentors suck (I'm not pointing fingers, but that's what I infer from failing projects).Hold on a second. I'm not remembering such a grim outcome with 100% failure from prior summers of code as you're describing. Before I start beating myself up, I guess I'd like a little more information--- is there some specific project or statistic that you're thinkingof that brings you to that conclusion?
In retrospect, I might have been unnecessarily harsh there. One of the main measures of a mentor's success, in my opinion, is having his student stick around after the Summer of Code: the mentor is the student's primary link to the community. There have been 4~5 students every year, times 6 years (is that how long we've been participating?). How many of those students have felt part of the community?