On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I consider this GSoC as a great success and a pleasant experience. >> Congratulation to Paul and Karthik, and a warm "thank you" to everybody >> who contributed: administrators, mentors, reviewers, and obviously >> Junio! (not to mention Google, who made all this possible) >> >> Thanks all! > Congratulations Paul and Karthik! > > I do not know what made it different this year from years past. We > may want to ask ourselves what made it a successful year, so that we > can repeat the success factors the next year: > > * The individual qualities of the students we got this year must > have been a major factor. This we can indirectly influence by > having a very engaging microproject period, I think, and we did > so this year. > > * I cannot say anything about mentor-student interactions, which > are largely private. Mentors may want to share tips to get > students more engaged, or perhaps the level of engagement was > primarily affected by who the students were. I dunno. As a first time mentor, I sometimes had the feeling of not doing enough mentoring. Though maybe just because of less private student-mentor interaction the reviews came to the list earlier exposing the patches to a wider audience? > > * The topics chosen this year were well-sized, not overly nebulous. > > * The reviewers were helpful and probably more active than past > years. > > Thanks. -- 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