So for students to even be considered, let alone accepted accepted, they must first have commit access to the repo? I didn't think you had to be completely familiar with the code since you are a 'student'. Please help me with this because I want to apply but haven't had the time to go through all the doxygen docs and become familiar with the code yet.

On Jan 25, 2011 10:49 AM, "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...> wrote:
>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Alexandre Prokoudine [mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@...400...]
>
> >> > Not exactly high. The previous year was a 2/5 failure
> >> indeed, but the
> >> > year before was 100% success, if my memory serves me well,
> >> and we are
> >> > talking about 6 or 7 projects in 2009.
>
> In 2010 we actually had 3/5 fail. :(  It was very unfortunate and I
> hope we can avoid that this year as the "acceptable" (desired) rate is
> 80% successful.
>
>
> >> > One of disappeared students last year had been around in
> >> the community
> >> > for a rather long time, and the other disappeared student did a
> >> > successful project for GIMP in 2009, so it's quite possible that we
> >> > just had our bit of bad luck. We did have disappearing students in
> >> > even earlier GSoCs though.
> >> > IIRC, this is where the "two patches" rule comes from.
>
> Actually the two patches rule comes from it's the minimum requirement
> to get commit access to the repo. It was part of the change in
> attitude from sodi podi to be more welcoming. It's honestly a pretty
> low bar. It was decided that it would be good to require this before
> the students would even be considered as it was "proof" of them
> checking out the code and showing a form of commitment/desire to
> participate in GSoC (plus what Johan said about it allowing us to see
> to some extent if they really can read/write code).
>
> I really think that SVG compliance projects should be a focus this
> year as well (not exclusive by any means though). The list Tav posted
> does have some really great ideas, so I think we need to really
> analyze what those tasks really look like and which would be
> reasonable GSoC projects.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
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