I think anybody can create a new JIRA label, it does not have to be a PMC member, so I guess you can introduce the new labels when you create the respective JIRAs.
Best, Stamatis On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 5:46 AM Rui Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds good. > > My understanding at this moment is that, if there is an interesting idea, > make sure creating a JIRA and label that by "mentor" and "gsoc2021" [1]. > Once ASF is confirmed as a mentoring organization, there will be a process > to register a project in the GSOC website, and then all will start from > there. > > Could a PMC member create these two labels? > > I am willing to be a mentor this year. I will try to come up with a few > ideas in March. However I don't guarantee I can make it as it is still not > clear to me my availability between May and August :-) > > [1]: https://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > > > -Rui > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 1:45 AM Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Rui, > > > > Nice idea. Indeed it would be great if Calcite could participate in GSoC. > > > > It crossed my mind a few times but then I thought about the amount of > open > > PRs that we have in our backlog and it didn't really make sense at that > > point. > > Personally, I would prefer to invest my free time (when I have) to mentor > > those new contributors opening PRs than commit to help others that have > not > > yet started. > > > > Having said that, if there is somebody who wants to push forward a > specific > > feature/idea then why not. > > > > Best, > > Stamatis > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:21 PM Francis Chuang < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > There was some discussion about having students contribute to the > > > project as part of GSoC in the past, but I don't think it has happened > > > before. > > > > > > See: > > > - > > > > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4cb29fdfc5128386081401f75d99e888cd2af7cc79a8d0d63df2af7%401455998281%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > - > > > > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c0ef0701658caaa0c51b04c33da99bdde621d83fc0fb5aa0e319347e%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > > > > In the past, Michael had some students working on parts of Calcite, but > > > not in GSoC capacity: > > > - > > > > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f0ea9594f151e7f6ad9b7f305fc2c87d99f64acac2cc76e179a1a1f7%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > > > > I would definitely love to see this happen. It would be a great > > > opportunity for students to learn something new and interesting and a > > > good opportunity for the project as well. > > > > > > Francis > > > > > > On 26/02/2021 6:44 am, Rui Wang wrote: > > > > Hi community, > > > > > > > > Does Calcite ever participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) [1]. > What > > > do > > > > you think of creating smaller projects and allowing students to pick > > them > > > > up? > > > > > > > > I used to host two GSoC students for Apache Beam and I found the > > > > collaboration was smooth and students could add valuable additions to > > the > > > > project. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1]: https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > > > > > > > -Rui > > > > > > > > > >
