let's get ready for Google Summer of Code 2014

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, February 10, 2014 16:21:34 Mark Gaiser wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:
> > On Monday, February 10, 2014 01:54:36 PM Mark Gaiser wrote:
> >> Done:
> >> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas#Revive_KioFuse.2C_fuse_support_f
> >> or
> >> _KIO
> >> 
> >> Lets hope a student comes by and picks that project
> >> All we need then is someone to mentor that.
> > 
> > Not you?
> 
> No, certainly not. I know "a bit" about KIO, but others know _way_
> more. And guiding a student requires someone with more in depth
> knowledge then i have. (looking at David Faure ^_-)

That's a misconception. What a mentor has to do is to show a developer the 
ropes, get him or her started, but the mentor doesn't have to be an absolute 
authority in a given domain (but has to realize that). As long as you can 
point the student towards finding a solution, or tell him/her where to find 
help, whom to ask, it's perfectly fine to mentor someone.

Most of the work in guiding the student is in ... well ... guiding the 
student, and that's more related to processes such as where to find help, how 
to get the build set up. In my experience, it's mostly about processes than 
about absolute knowledge and expertise of a given piece of code.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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