GSoC improvements

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:

> Heya folks,
>
> I have been thinking about what we can improve this year wrt to the
> code that gets written during GSoC. As last year was the first year we
> had a lot of newcomers as students I think there are some things we
> can improve this year on the coding side.
> One big problem last year was that some students commited huge chunks
> of code that only very few people or even no-one reviewed post commit.
> So I guess we should make it very very clear that we want to see
> smaller commits on a more regular basis.
> Is there anything else that could be useful? What is your opinion on a
> more formal code review pre or post commit?
> Also for the former students: Is there anything on the coding side we
> could have done that you think would have helped you?
>
> Let's make GSoC 2009 rock at least as much as last year's!


Switching to Git will make all this a lot easier. We could even start
students off with the pull request' model on github.

So you're just making me guilty for not working on scripty. :D

ian
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