Re: Next steps for GSoC Students

[Luciano Resende <lu...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Luciano Resende <lu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> GSoC Students,
>
>
> Its the GSoC community bonding period right now where you get up to
> speed with the project and make preparations for starting your
> projects.
>
> One thing that you could do right now is sign and submit the ASF
> Contributors License Agreement, which is a legal form that defines the
> terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the
> ASF, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas.
>
> As for starting to work, I have some recommendations to you :
>
> - All technical discussions should be done in the project dev list.
> This gives the whole community visibility to the project, and also
> encourage their participation.
> - Patches should be sent frequently, even if they are not completely
> done... frequent smaller patches are easier to review and allow a
> quicker turnaround on getting submitted to svn.  I'd recommend once or
> twice a week at least.
> - It would be good to have a wiki page updated weekly with project progress.
>
> Well, this should be it for now, if others have more recommendations,
> please feel free to add to the thread :)
>


I want to reiterate that communications should be done mostly on the
DEV list, particularly technical discussions, so that the community
can participate.

Also, patches should be attached to JIRA for legal reasons.

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