[core-workflow] Planning the GitHub migration

[Terri Oda]

On 2017-01-31 1:24 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> you can submit a project idea for GSoC by the 7th of
>>> February.
>>
>>
>> Where can I find instructions on how to do it?  I may have an idea to
>> submit.
>
> See http://python-gsoc.org/#mentors and/or ask on #python-gsoc on Freenode.
>


A good project idea is something well-described that a student can make 
a plan to complete within the 3 month coding period, with the help of 
mentors.  We usually ask for two mentors per project, but it's usually 
not too hard to find a backup mentor if you ask on the mailing lists or 
ask me (I usually have a few spare volunteers.)  Basically, write a 
paragraph or two, provide links to related bugs or discussions, some 
information about difficulty, and any other information student would 
need to know is what we're looking for.  (For a more specific checklist, 
there's an ideas page template that might help: 
https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/OrgIdeasPageTemplate)

We get up to PhD level students with various levels of real project 
experience, but there are a huge number of students browsing ideas who 
are *maybe* 1st year university students without work experience.  So 
when you're explaining difficulty, remember it's relative to those 
students who are young, inexperienced, and need to know what ideas are 
suitable for them.

There's a currently very blank template for python core ideas here:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2017/python-core

(If that's not convenient for you to edit, we also keep stuff on github, 
or you can just email me with the data you want on there.)


Feel free to ask me more questions or drop by #python-gsoc (or our new 
zulip instance: https://zulip.python-gsoc.org/ ) to chat.

  Terri