On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:

Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> * Did you notice this line on the requirements page? "Having your
> first pull request merged before the GSoC application deadline (May 3)
> is required for your application to be accepted."
>
> Where is that last requirement? It seems out of line to me.
> Arink now has a pull request, but it looks intrusive enough
> and needs enough work that I don't think we can just put it in.

Well, we wrote so here:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/SummerofCodeIdeas

but that's maybe just a mistake -- PSF states exactly the opposite:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate2013

It wasn't a mistake - the part of a PR process that is most interesting in the context of evaluating GSoC applications is the dialogue and how the submitter deals with feedback.

I forgot to add on that page (although I think it was in one of my emails) that the patch shouldn't be completely trivial - fixing a typo doesn't really tell us all that much. But in this case Chuck's suggestion on the PR of how to get something merged looks fine.

Cheers,

Ralf