[Mailman-Developers] GSoC discussion

[Manish Gill]

On 05/08/2013 10:39 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Richard Wackerbarth writes:
>
>   > I appears that my communication was not as successful as I had hoped.
>
> I don't know about your communication.  My point here is that the
> *student's* communication was insufficient.
I'll be more thorough in the future.
> As I wrote earlier, my criticisms are going to be severe, even harsh.
> There's a good reason for that.  What we're doing here is quite
> different from most uses of mailing lists, which are either much more
> casual (conversational correspondence) or involve a group whose
> members are all more or less up to speed on the content.
You can be critical without being harsh.
> That's not going to be the case here.  Important decision-makers
> (Terri and Barry) are currently not in the loop.  The students are
> going to be very much focused on their own proposals, and will take
> time to get up to speed on others'.  Posts need to avoid presuming
> very much knowledge on the part of other subscribers, at least early
> in threads.
>
> There's another important point that hasn't been mentioned yet.  You
> GSoC students are Mailman developers now.  It's not about your
> proposal, it's about the Mailman project.
Fair enough.
>    Your proposal is important
> to us in the context of the project, not standing alone by itself.
> You should help support the other students in their projects, too.
> You may not have anything constructive to contribute to others' tasks
> yet, but you *should* be able to ask questions about them.  That's
> important for learning about how Mailman works overall.
>
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