Hello. Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 16:43, Alex Herbert <alex.d.herb...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > The GSoC guidelines for students writing a proposal [1] is to use the > guidelines or templates of the organization. It then states that certain > elements will improve chances of a proposal including in Deliverables: > > "a brief, clear work breakdown structure with milestones and deadlines. > > ... start by producing some kind of white paper, or planning the project > in traditional Software Engineering style." > > AFAIK there is no template we are adhering to under Commons GSoC. For > most of the GSoC projects I have seen on Commons it is apparent that the > targets are very flexible. Perhaps some sort of agile software > engineering style is suitable here. At least when I did SCRUM [1] the > idea was a daily 15 minutes stand-up to discuss issues and progress with > the aim of completing deliverable iterations within a week or fortnight. > > I can certainly see an agile method as a way to work with a mentee when > the expected contributions to the codebase can be partitioned into > independent tasks. > > The first iteration may involve getting familiar with the code, running > tests, building javadoc, etc. Basically understanding all the > deliverables that a release of a commons component outputs. > > After that each iteration can be the development and test and PR of an > addition to the commons project. If the iteration is not quite an > encapsulated PR then some measurable state on a topic branch (such as a > tagged milestone). Being agile leaves the plan open to change and > flexible to adapt to the interest of the mentee. > > As for the agile workflow, I am not sure how a remote stand-up would > work given time zones but one to think about. Perhaps an open Google > doc/spreadsheet where new items are added, discussed and resolved. This > would have to be checked daily by team members. Major issues can then be > promoted to an on-line discussion. (Any experience with working in a > geographically remote agile group would be useful to know.) > > Opinions are welcome. > > Alex > > > [1] https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal > > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)
First remark is that we'd need more mentors in order to form a minimal "Scrum" team. ;-) Gilles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
