(looping in gsoc@) On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 00:39, David Coallier <dav...@php.net> wrote: >> Scott did. >> I have asked _multiple_ times about the status of the project, all I >> got was "he passed". >> >> Quote from Scott (from few months ago): >> "he was to implement unicode support in more modules and convert an >> application. >> >> He's in the process of writing a conversion guide and I believe he did >> openssl, imap and updated date." >> >> I am still looking forward to see the results, even though its almost >> a year behind schedule. > > Ah yeah I remember now. Well, in a way, good to know the student has > passed. Did we get more % one the completion? I'd say that 69% is > merely a change from the last 2 years.
IIRC, noone failed last year. One guy dropped out (the llvm guy). >From my perspective, he is the onlyone (with one exception) who _really_ put work into his project - and do you remember his application? WOW! If he is still interested, I am willing to do my own personal "summer of code" sponsoring his project (it'd be great if couple of guys would join me on that one though.. :P). The rest of the folks just got a "free pass" because their mentors either didn't care or were to busy to review their "work". Well, except for my student, obviously :) - He did everything he was supposed to do (and even more then that), he participated on IRC and sent out mails to the relevant mailingsts regularly. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to convince him to devote his "free time" after the "gsoc project" ended (which really is an shame - he really did a good job and *our* project, and we really could use a guy like him to continue working with us. As a side note: I was a "gsoc student" 2 years ago. I passed - even though "my mentor" was totally unavailable. I didn't have any "secondary mentor". Fortunately, I knew my way around php.net (as I had been a php.net contributor for several years) so I "found myself" a new mentor (Philip), and the project turned out to workout quite alright. > Anyways, issues with students and progress should be somewhat resolved > this year with the new approach to student mentoring and student > reporting tasks I'd say. I really hope so. But I still would like stricter rules, both for acceptance (to the project) and for project delivery. Keep in mind, the students are expect to treat the project as a near-full-time projects. Not a 2hours-a-week OSS work. -Hannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
