On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:56 AM Trevor Woerner <twoerner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue 2019-03-26 @ 10:40:49 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > > Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid > > Thank you for taking the time to have a look and provide feedback! > > > but are there > > people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO > > unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived. > > Attracting mentors is probably the hardest part of running GSoC. Perhaps if a > student shows interest in a given topic, someone might be inspired to sign up > as a mentor? > > Keeping the list of ideas up-to-date and finding mentors are the two things > I'm hoping to make a noticeable improvement to this year. It also ties in > strongly with: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/76 > > Best regards, > Trevor BTW - I meant my comment to only apply to nouveau-related projects. Both in terms of validity, as well as mentorship-unavailability. It sucks for a student to come in, think that some project is available to work on, only to find that there's no one who can mentor them. I don't know how often that happens, but I bet it's "sometimes". Better to get them to dedicate themselves to projects that do have mentors available. [And yeah, I know these are meant as "ideas", but I think in practice it's "here's a list of projects for you to select from". Only a very rare student will come up with their own idea.] -ilia _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
