Hello for GSOC

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 10:28 +0800, yun lee wrote:
> Hello, everyone.Nice to write in the mailing list.
> 
> I'm a girl volunteer for this GSOC.
> 
> I have passed last year's GSOC with DERBY as my project. And this
> year, I'm interested in Mercurial and wish to do some contribution for
> this smart distributed VCS.

You should point us to your DERBY project.

> I have read the wiki page "GSoC Project Ideas for 2011", and would
> love to choose "Improved built-in help" as my project. Just like  it
> says "Mercurial's built-in help is quite good, but could be better."
> As a girl, I would love to make a tool more user-friendly.

> I still have some questions about this GSOC:
> 
> 1. How much time of program is required for this idea?
>    I'm strange that, It seems like a documenting work than a
> programming work. As GSOC is mainly for programming, I'm not sure it's
> a proper idea for GSOC?

Many of our GSoC ideas this year are open-ended. I'm hoping people will
latch onto an area that's interesting to them and expand it with their
own ideas. Some of the ideas in the help category are indeed about
improving the doc text itself, but others are going to involve some
serious coding.

The most challenging part of GSoC is actually not coding the coding
itself. It's learning how to do that coding in a team environment.

> 2.How many students will be accepted?

No idea. Probably no more than 3.

> 3.What can I do now to help my application?

We ask everyone to:

a) introduce themselves on IRC
b) pick an easy bug from the BTS and work on a fix

Since this is about learning to work with a team, feel free to ask
questions.


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