I know I'm 2 weeks late ;-), but here are some comments (I'm a GSoC student working on gitweb caching): Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Q: How much time have you spent per week interacting with your mentor > > All of our students (except 1) said 0-5 hours per week [...]. > Nearly all of the mentors on the other hand chose 6-10 hours Maybe mentors tended to count public interaction (on the list), and students tended not to (or to underestimate how long it takes to write email). > In terms of community building this question's answers seem to > suggest we need to try harder to make our students included, That could include making sure that all students are comfortable with IRC (which I've found very helpful), and discouraging taking discussion off the main list (like it happened with GitTorrent). > Q: Do you feel that you are on track to complete your project? > > I'm not sure if this is good or bad. 3 students (50%!) are > ahead of schedule, 1 is on schedule, and 2 are behind. I think it's actually fine, since this is mostly a function of how optimistic your initial plan was. I picked "ahead" because I got through faster than I originally estimated, but it simply means I can implement some 'optional' features. > [Since 3 students are ahead] I wonder if as mentors we didn't > demand enough of our students? I'd guess the opposite is true -- demanding more (as long as you don't hit the 'overwhelm' effect), if anything, tends to make me stay on track better. E.g. last year I was 'behind schedule', and part of the reason was that I had to balance GSoC and life and my mentor didn't kick my butt quite hard enough. ;-) -- Lea -- 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
