[oi-dev] Fwd: [illumos-Developer] Google Summer of Code?

[Deano]

Indeed, though it is quite useful, oddly, for the proposals to not be quite
right (hardness etc.), it requires students to investigate and look into the
problem first, that usually is a pretty good way in itself of filtering the
students wanting an easy life.

Block Pointer Rewrite is a good example, they task itself is too big BUT if
we get a good student interested in advanced file systems, they can (with
us) probably produce a manageable deliverable and we may just get the next
file system hot shot interested in further work post GSOC. Any student who
just writes BPR on the form we know they clearly haven't spent even an hour
looking into things.

Deano

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com] 
Sent: 06 March 2011 20:09
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] Fwd: [illumos-Developer] Google Summer of Code?

On 03/ 6/11 11:59 AM, Deano wrote:
> I've added some from easy to hard to hopefully give Google and the
students a range of things they might like to get involved with, I've added
myself as mentor for most but for a few I'm not the right person or will be
useful to have a few people covering it (i.e. ZFS BPR)

Google Summer of Code projects are expected to be equivalent to a full-time
job for 2-3 months, so things that are too easy won't qualify, but neither
will things that a new developer without much experience can't complete in
that amount of time.

Of course, the project suggestions are just to give students ideas -
students
will actually have to write up a proposal when they apply and can use
something
the project suggested or their own idea.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System


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