[pytest-dev] Google Summer Of Code

[holger krekel]

Hi Florian, Tom,

I've mentored in the past but won't go for it this year.
Maybe it would help to list ideas wiki/web page which briefly
discuss some larger scale ideas about testing/pytest/tox?

holger


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 20:04 +0000, Tom Viner wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> I've seen some amazing things achieved with GSOCs. Take Django's Meta API
> by Daniel Pyrathon [1] as a good example.
> 
> See here how Django GSOC devs/mentors wrote some really nice ideas for
> students to pick from (including the Meta API idea) [2] [3].
> 
> [1]
> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/pirosb3/5649050225344512
> [2] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2014
> [3] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2015
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 10 February 2016 at 17:00, <pytest-dev-request at python.org> wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:42 +0100
> > From: Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
> > To: pytest-dev at python.org
> > Subject: [pytest-dev] Google Summer Of Code
> > Message-ID: <20160210125942.GJ10579 at tonks>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I was asked by qutebrowser users if I want to participate as an
> > organization for Google's Summer Of Code - while I don't think it
> > makes sense for a "smaller" project like qutebrowser, I think it'd
> > make a lot of sense for pytest!
> >
> > The idea of GSoC is that opensource projects apply for it, then
> > students apply to a given project, then contribute a significant
> > amount of work (being mentored by project members) and in exchange get
> > a stipend (~USD 5000) from Google.
> >
> > Applications are open until Feburary 19th (Friday in a week...) - what
> > about trying with pytest?
> >
> > What we'd need are two (or more) administrative organisators (I'd
> > volunteer) and mentors.
> >
> > The PSF is also available as an umbrella organization:
> > https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Florian
> >

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