Hi, i m researching for webapp manager for tuscany and m going to apply for that. Referencing to one of the post , it says its a joke. I just wanna ask if this infeasible at all and if there is any thing i could step up to work with. thanks..
On 4/6/11, Zhijie Shen <zjshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a student that will apply GSoC'11 with Apache. From the perspective of a > student, I think one reason is that the idea list of Apache projects is > released a bit late. In fact, a number of other organizations released the > idea list long time before the organization application deadline. Hence some > of students who are not patient enough tend to apply with these early > organizations. Just my personal feeling :-) > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Andrus Adamchik > <and...@objectstyle.org>wrote: > >> >> On Apr 6, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Sean Owen wrote: >> >> > Is anyone else's historical success rate low or is it just me? >> >> My experience with GSoC included successes, failures, and outcomes >> somewhere in the middle (e.g. a project was delivered, but we never >> integrated it in the codebase, and it was left to rot in the repo). Our >> conclusion was that the type of task you post for your students to do >> plays >> a very important role in this (the last discussion on that is here: >> http://markmail.org/message/qg2ovoiwtcp3eji5 ). Most of the applying >> students are not already active hackers on a project, so giving them tasks >> requiring massive changes to the sensitive areas of the code is one recipe >> for disaster, and there are more... >> >> Andrus > > > > > -- > Zhijie Shen > School of Computing > National University of Singapore > <http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ez-shen/> >
