[Systers-dev] Summer of Code Volunteer

[Robin Jeffries]

We would love to have you.

I have to fess up that I do all my coding work for systers using several
concurrent putty terminals, so you don't need much of a development
environment.  It's best if you can learn a bit about launchpad (where we
track our bugs and where we put the code branches).  You only have to learn
about bzr, the source code system if you are checking in code.  Kanika Vats,
one of last year's students is proposing to create a "dev environment in a
box", which would make it easy for you to get the full environment.

And keep in mind that 5 hours is not in 1-2 chunks, but includes responding
to random emails.  I don't think that last summer I ever put in a chunk of
an hour other than when I was doing code reviews.

You are on my list as a potential.  There is a method by which potential
mentors can be involved in rating the student applications, so if you would
like to do that, let me know. (I think they are due in March, so this would
be sometime in april.)

Robin



On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Anne Gunn <ompeag at wyoming.com> wrote:

> Robin, Jen,
>
> As I said at GHC09, I'd be very interested in mentoring.
>
> Skills:
> Python, sql/mysql, code reading, debugging, figuring out what/where/when to
> try changes in relatively big, sometimes brittle bodies of code (also C++,
> C, C#, and some java and php but I don' think any of those are relevant).
>  Plus, I'm used to working remotely, primarily by email.
>
> Limitations:
> Your mailman development environment and tools are pretty foreign to me so,
> for example, I probably wouldn't be ANY help in getting the dev environment
> set up.  And the student might have to remote me in from time to time OR
> supply me with an up-to-date dev VM so I can see what she/he sees in order
> to be the most helpful.  I'm also not super familiar with the whole open
> source delivery-by-patch thing.  I'd probably be more use on either a new
> feature project or the bug fixing project than on any of the work to
> integrate the customizations more closely with mailman.
>
> 5+ hours a week would be a stretch.  Not sure if I should be a primary or a
> secondary, I guess I leave that up to you.
>
> Thanks for asking,
> ag
>
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> Anne Gunn
> ompeag @ wyoming.com
>
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