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From: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>
To: "Martin Bähr" <mbaehr@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>,
	supmua <supmua@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [sup] papercuts and google code-in
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:14:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1419775872-astroid-4-gk0eja34lo-1194@strange> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1419701714-sup-6215@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>

Hi, 

I invited you to become a contributor to the sup organization on github
(embee right?). That way you can assign yourself to these issues and
handle them on the issue-tracker.

Thanks for doing this, I hope there is time to polish things up enough
to merge them.

regards, gaute

Excerpts from Martin Bähr's message of December 27, 2014 19:05:
> hi,
> 
> while using sup i am taking notes whenever i notice some small issue or an idea
> for an improvement.
> 
> some of these may be real bugs, some a matter of taste, and so i didn't take
> the time to write them all up as issues.
> 
> i have put the list here http://pad.hackerspace.sg/p/sup-ideas
> (but that server is down now, so i put a backup here:
> https://factor.cc/pad/p/sup-ideas )
> 
> now, i am a mentor for FOSSASIA at google code-in, and i put up that list as a
> source of tasks for students to work on.
> 
> (a sample task is here
> https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/6127040658931712 
> i have since updated the text a little bit advising students for the need for
> writing tests and testing against develop and use-mail branches)
> 
> essentially that means that sup is able to participate at google code-in.
> 
> so far only one student showed interest, but if well maintained he might become
> a sup contributor.
> 
> if you are interested to take advantage of this you could help in the following ways:
> if you have suggestions for tasks, add them right on that etherpad page. (add
> your name and a description of the task)
> 
> you could also add your name behind existing tasks if you are interested to
> help students with those.
> 
> i don't think you need to sign up with google code-in to help. it is probably
> enough to communicate with the students through github issues and
> pull-requests. and you can help by reviewing and closing pull-requests.
> 
> if a pull-request is closed i can immediately close the students task, though i
> may close their task if i am satisfied with the work, regardless of the
> pull-request status. (since the tasks are my wishlist, it doesn't necessarily
> follow that all my wishes should be accepted into sup)
> 
> note that google code-in is a contest, and the number of tasks the students
> close carries some weight in winning a prize. this causes some students to show
> impatience with getting their tasks reviewed. i do hope that this impatience
> does not spill over into github discussions, but if it happens, please just
> ignore it (and let me know, so i can deal with it)
> 
> greetings, martin.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-28 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-27 18:05 Martin Bähr
2014-12-28 14:14 ` Gaute Hope [this message]
2014-12-28 16:12   ` [sup] " Martin Bähr
2014-12-28 17:06     ` Gaute Hope
2014-12-28 17:31       ` Martin Bähr
2014-12-28 18:00         ` Gaute Hope

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