Comments on: Project ideas, students, and mentors wanted for Google Summer of Code

By: sumanah

sumanah — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:41:09 +0000

Nicholas, Google Summer of Code does get publicity, but it's also a substantive project that leads to new contributors, new and better code, and learning. And MediaWiki developers are indeed working on making it easier for anyone, not just students, to contribute to MediaWiki. MediaWiki developers are working on this by improving documentation such as "How to become a MediaWiki hacker", doing code review more consistently, cleaning up aspects of MediaWiki that are difficult to understand, and via other means. Please do feel free to tell me about problems and obstacles you've run into, and I'll see what I can do.

By: NicholasTurnbull

NicholasTurnbull — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:43:11 +0000

I wish that the MW developers would make it easier for people to contribute to MediaWiki *outside* of publicity-raising stunts such as GSoC. Unless there is PR initiative in allowing people who are not part of the developer “cathedral” to work on MediaWiki, their attitude to potential developers is at best slightly derisive and at worst actively obstructive towards people contributing code.

By: bawolff

bawolff — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:59:42 +0000

Jarry1250 : (Well, that and some technical details about whether I qualify as a “student” or not. But I’d be interested to know anyway.)

If i recall, last year all 6 students qualified for the full amount.

By: Jarry1250

Jarry1250 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:33:01 +0000

(Well, that and some technical details about whether I qualify as a “student” or not. But I’d be interested to know anyway.)

By: Jarry1250

Jarry1250 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:21:48 +0000

I’m interested to know: in those six years, how many students haven’t qualified for the full dollar amount due to performance concerns?

Because if it weren’t for the (understandable) element of risk, I might consider applying as a student. :)

By: David

David — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:00:41 +0000

Nope, PHP and MediaWiki are complete as they are.

By: sumanah

sumanah — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:31:40 +0000

Sorry for the error, and thanks for correcting it! I’ve removed the mistaken line about Andrew Garrett’s LiquidThreads work from the post.

By: Erik Moeller

Erik Moeller — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:26:21 +0000

Yes, you’re correct, bawolff. The blog post is in error.

By: bawolff

bawolff — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:14:16 +0000

btw, I believe that the GSOC aspects of LQT back in 2006 was done by David McCabe. Andrew then improved/took over LQT somewhere in 2010. (Or at least that was my impression)