On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/02/2012 10:36 AM, Buddhike Kurera wrote: >> Dear Mentors, >> >> The summer-coding-discuss[1] list is active and registered mentors >> (google-melange) are already invited. Please use the link on the >> invitation mail to join with the list. >> >> This list is reserved for mentors/ admins and will use to discuss >> things related with this year summer-coding program. The list will >> be public once the program has been concluded for this year. > > So I sent Buddhike an email about this earlier, sorry it arrived late > for this action. > > Mentors usually have a private-always mailing list so they can discuss > student performance and issues. This includes the discussions about > applications. We don't want that to become public, ever. GSoC is > somewhere for students to learn and potentially fail, which they will > also learn from. We don't want discussions to be out in the public > record, which could harm students. > > As it happens, we already have a private-for-mentors mailing list. I > think I recommend we use that list and not the -discuss list. This is > because the -discuss list has students and other people who are not > mentors, so shouldn't be part of the private mentor discussions. > > Here's how we did it in 2010. > > summer-coding - the Summer Coding SIG (special interest group) list, > not about the current program > > summer-coding-discuss - students, mentors, and everyone else to > discuss any topic, such as proposals, ideas, etc. > > summer-coding-mentors - private list so mentors can discuss student > applications and performance > > That was in 2010 when we did Fedora Summer Coding. For all other years > we used the two Google Groups: > > redhat-summer - general discussion list with students and mentors > > redhat-summer-mentors - private list for mentors ... > > So for this year where we are just Fedora in GSoC (used to also > include JBoss, one of the reasons we used the Google Group), we have > taken over the summer-coding@ list, which is fine - the SIG isn't > active anyway, so better to do all the student, mentor, SIG > discussions in one place. Then we can use the summer-coding-mentors > list for the private discussions. > > Does this make sense? Or did I just confuse things more? Sorry for the communication delay. As noted will use the summer-coding-mentors list and will add registered mentors to that list. -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador - APAC region Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera at fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera
