GSoC 2015. Mercurial needs (1) ideas (2) mentors (3) admin

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 22:14 +0100, Giovanni Gherdovich wrote:
> Last year I coordinated things and managed the paperwork, but these
> days I am struggling to find time for Mercurial, so I prefer to pass
> on to somebody else.

I say that unless we already see some interest from existing
contributors who could benefit from GSoC (e.g. like Sean's position
last time), we don't bother.

I know I'm being cynical, but GSoC seems like a lot of work for little
benefit. I'm not looking forward to a lot of students telling us which
programming languages they know and asking us what to do next.

I'd rather have some funds set aside from Conservancy that could be
used to independently support for a few months a mostly self-directed
student contributor, when that contributor arises. Do those funds
exist? If not, I'd rather work on raising those funds than on GSoC.

- Jordi G. H.