Re: [hibernate-dev] Everyone: Need volunteers for mentoring GSOC

I asked for mentors, not students. On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:05 Gunnar Morling, <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > > Hi, > > I'll write up the proposal for the batch job for mass indexing and > submit it to > https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/JBossCommunityGoogleSummerOfCode2016Ideas. > > > It would need to be someone who's regularly contributing already... > > Personally I don't think that's needed and also it's not in the spirit of > GSoC. > > The program is meant to bring students *into* OSS development. Of > course having experience in that area doesn't harm, but it's no > requirement. Much more important is the general attitude (willingness > to learn etc.) as well as general programming knowledge. > > Student's applications start on March 14th, so whatever we feel like > going for, should be in that proposal list by then. > > --Gunnar > > > > > 2016-03-01 18:27 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt;: > > Hi all, > > earlier today in our IRC meeting [1] we discussed ideas for Google > > Summer of Code; > > mostly related Hibernate Search but not only: > > > > Quoting the previous summary by Gunnar: > > 1 - Java Batch API job for HSEARCH mass indexing > > 2 - Solr backend > > 3 - HSEARCH support for JHipster > > 4 - HSEARCH support for Spring Data > > 5 - Async API for ORM/OGM/HSEARCH > > [It's not a closed list, you can also propose additional ideas.] > > > > is anyone on this mailing list interested enough on these subjects to > > volunteer mentoring? > > > > I mentored two students last year and we had nice results, but I won't > > be able to mentor this summer. > > > > It would need to be someone who's regularly contributing already, and > > ideally someone familiar with the technology we're integrating with: > > most of the above proposals are about integrating with some other > > standard or framework. > > > > For example I wouldn't mentor on JHipster as all I know about it is > > what I've seen in a couple of presentations... but if the student is > > not too junior he can also be tasked with reaching out to "the other" > > community to get guidance. > > > > But for that I'd want us to be able to make some introductions at > > least, to have some kind of "co-mentor" volunteered by the other > > community/project. > > > > Thanks, > > Sanne > > > > > > 1 - > > http://transcripts.jboss.org/meeting/irc.freenode.org/hibernate-dev/2016/... > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev