Hi Ross, thanks for your invaluable info,well i m beginning to work on it and m researching on it too. Now, if you give any link of the so far reported problems, I'd be rather satisfied. thanks..
On 4/6/11, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote: > On 06/04/2011 17:44, ejaj on resurgence wrote: >> 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. > > It does work, some people have applied. But I've seen lots of people > reporting problems finding things. > > It's just a question of looking hard. > > I don't think there are any complications with the actual application > process so if you have found your project, engaged with the mentors and > done your prep work you should be just fine. > > Ross > >> 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/> >>> > > > -- > rgard...@apache.org > @rgardler >
