Re: Don't understand GSoC

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:06 +0700, Urmas wrote:
> What GSoC results in for Abiword:
>
> 1. Some people come;
> 2. People leave after themselves half-baked, half-working code branches;
> 3. People leave in September and are never heard again.
>
> Do you report them as failed? Or do they actually get something from Google for this?

That depends on the individual mentor and discussions between mentors.
We do fail students. We also pass students sometimes even when their
code does not end up in our main tree.

Cheers!
  Marc
Received on Tue Oct 4 18:54:06 2011