All this is good, but meaningless unless someone has the time to follow through. I'm going to leave it one more day. If there is no ASF level follow through I will notify PMCs that they should apply directly.
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Oct 19, 2011 6:28 AM, "siddharth srivastava" <akssps...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Some of suggestions are as follows: > > > > > One part of the application is a link to our tasks page. One thing that > > has confused me about this program is how tasks should be sized. How > many > > hours would we expect a task to take? > > > As far as I know the tasks are categorized as per the level of difficulty > (easy, medium and hard). Certain points are associated with each level of > difficulty. > Each task also has a pre-fixed amount of time to complete the task which is > decided by the mentor for the task. > Student do not necessarily work on the tasks only for one organization. > They > are free to switch between the organizations as soon as they complete the > task. > > > > Do we have an old list from when we participated in GCI to get an idea? > > Also what kind of infrastructure do we want for our task list, just Jira > > labels or something else? > > > > Not very sure of the intricacies of Jira infrastructure or policies from > our > side, but gci-2011 for the tasks would be good to manage the tasks on > Apache's side. > On google's side, melange provides an interface to manage the completed > tasks on there end as well. discussion between students and mentor usually > happens there but as we already have a established infrastructure like Jira > so encouraging the prospective students to use it would be a good bet. :) > If I remember correctly, google requires the students to upload the > patch/documentation or anything produced for the task on melange as well > with each completed task. > > > > > It seems before we submit our application we should get the list of tasks > > started and have a primary admin volunteer. I wish I could admin but > am > > too time constrained right now. I could work on adding some tasks for > > Derby once I understand the sizing. > > > > Yes, this year google requires the organization to have a good number of > tasks before applying (I am not sure but probably on a wiki page) > It would be good to have a list of probably roles and responsibility that > an > admin needs to perform. > > Thanks > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Kathey > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards > Siddharth Srivastava >
