Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> What I gathered from the discussion so far is that everybody agrees >> that our mentoring has been suboptimal in various ways (not enough >> encouragement to engage with the community early, working in the >> cave for too long, biting too much to chew etc.). What makes you >> think we would do better this year? > > The fact that we will be more conscious that we need smaller projects > and that we need to push even more for students to send their patch > soon on the mailing list. > > If it doesn't work at all we will be set and we will know that there > is not much we can do to make it work. That sounds like doing the same thing over and over again to me. I just looked at the "ideas" page Thomas sent the link to upthread this morning, but I didn't see any evidence that it has been been curated with "we need smaller projects" in mind. We will be more conscious? I cannot take that promise at face value after seeing that the page stayed the same since Thomas resurrected it from last year's ideas page ever since it was created. > If we don't even try we will not know soon, so not be able to improve > or decide to stop. > > It's like software or science. If you don't test soon your hypothesis > you don't progress fast. The impression I am getting is that the concensus is that we do not even have hypothesis worth testing with a grant money from GSoC and students' time at this point, if I may borrow your science analogy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html