To our GSoC applicants:
You may want to read https://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Blog/SPAM.txt before you submit (or edit before we read it ;-), for a better first impression. It's not a "spec" you should "try" to conform to in your first draft -- many of the activities discussed are precisely those where mentoring is most helpful -- but if after reading it you "naturally" do some things differently or try things you hadn't thought of before, it will be a win for you. It will also give you a preview of many things mentors may ask you to include or improve over the proposal period.
The current version is now three years old, but I think most of the ideas still apply. OTOH, don't trust any links or GSoC deadline dates! and some stuff like the approved MR requirement aren't discussed, and of course references to Python 2 or Mailman 2 are now completely irrelevant to Mailman GSoC.
If you have questions, feel free to ask me personally or on list. If you wonder "do I really have to ...?", please ask on the list so other students can benefit. I may answer first, but Abhilash is authoritative on GSoC requirements set by Mailman.
Also, don't take the introductory paragraph personally, no matter how simple your own self-introduction seems to you. Believe it or not, we really used to see applications like that. They're very rare nowadays, and I will edit that part dramatically -- but not for a few days, and I'd like to get this out to you *now* (I thought it was linked from our GSoC page, but apparently not).
Steve