On 11 April 2013 23:30, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > One of the issues is that we keep using GSoC + year as tag, so we pretty > > much discard all the previous years project ideas that are still open. I > > think using something generic like GSoC would make our project idea look > > bigger without much overhead on mentors to prepare year over year. > > I see that in 2013 ideas, there are JIRA's created all the way from 2005 > through 2013. I worry if you automatically carry over the issues to next > year, we might end up with some unattended projects. What if the mentor > (who proposed it previous year) does not have time or interest or the > project is no longer relevant? I think it is not too much to expect from > the mentor to go to the previous year JIRA's and change the tag from > gsoc2012 to gsoc2013. If students are commenting on zombie ideas and do not > get a response, that might not send a good signal. If a mentor is not > having 30 minutes to create or modify a JIRA should we expect them to > mentor a student, review and accept code and provide feedback? > > Another good point (and now you mention it it's why we chose year tags originally).
Perhaps the thing to do is add some documentation to the initial email to PMCs saying "why not search for GSOC2012 and, if the item is still relevant, change it to GSOC 2013 - if it's not then maybe close it as a but of spring cleaning" Ross > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com > >
