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Subject: Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:33:07 -0400
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:

> Looking forward to next year, it would be good for us to encourage =
projects to have a GSoC tag in their ticket tracker to identify issues =
that would be good candidates for students. The folks at OpenHatch =
recommend clearly identifying tickets as entry-level, and then,  rather =
than always cleaning up the so-called "low-hanging fruit", leaving them =
for entry-level people. Such an approach might be employed, say, 3-6 =
months out from GSoC, to start to identify good student projects.
>=20
> Granted, this leaves things undone, but that's probably ok, if our =
focus is indeed community over code.


I see email on February 15th, from Ross and others [1], recommending =
just this, but it went to comdev, and from there didn't appear to have =
propagated to the various dev or pmc lists. That's the step we need to =
be sure to make happen so that we can catch the ear of the people on =
each project who are anxious to see this happen.

Might be useful to identify which projects have representation on the =
comdev mailing list and which don't.


[1] - http://markmail.org/message/tl4do4miegk4v2e7 and thereabouts

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Rich Bowen
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