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* Student should explain his planning to his mentor and to an admin (not everyone has the same vacations) | * Student should explain his planning to his mentor and to an admin (not everyone has the same vacations) | ||
* Student should report with a small mail once a week to both mentor and admin during the time agreed (failure to do that will fail the application) | * Student should report with a small mail once a week to both mentor and admin during the time agreed (failure to do that will fail the application) | ||
| − | * Student should commit | + | * Student should commit on his personal git branch once a week, except the first week of your schedule (or more if your project is complex) |
'''Explaining why you can't work one week is fine. Disappearing without notice is not.''' | '''Explaining why you can't work one week is fine. Disappearing without notice is not.''' | ||
* Update wiki status page. | * Update wiki status page. | ||
Revision as of 06:43, 18 March 2008
Those rules are mostly for x264 and VLC.
Those rules are quite flexible for any situation.
Contents
Rules
We don't like rules.
We like freedom and having fun with software programming.
However, we have no choice, seeing past experiences and issues. :'(
Summer Generalities
If you are a student, we expect that:
- You don't have a full-time job during your summer if you are doing SoC at the same time,
- You are of good will to work within VideoLAN team.
If you are a mentor, we expect that:
- You are willing to work with one student and answers his questions.
Selection
To be selected, students will have to:
- Show on IRC,
- Join the mailing lists (x264-devel or vlc-devel, according to your project),
- Select an idea,
- Say hello to the potential mentor and admin.
- Learn about the code you should modify (where in the source, what is the idea...),
- Be able to compile a VLC for your platform (for VLC development) and learn how to use Git.
- Complete the Google admission and give a planning idea.
During the summer
Student expectations
- Student should explain his planning to his mentor and to an admin (not everyone has the same vacations)
- Student should report with a small mail once a week to both mentor and admin during the time agreed (failure to do that will fail the application)
- Student should commit on his personal git branch once a week, except the first week of your schedule (or more if your project is complex)
Explaining why you can't work one week is fine. Disappearing without notice is not.
- Update wiki status page.
Student rights
- Ask questions and stupid questions to anyone
- Bother the mentor with questions
- Ask the admin for another mentor if the mentor doesn't answer or doesn't fit.
Students will be considered as full-right developers.
Mentor expectations
- Mentor should report to admins any problems as soon as noticed,
- Mentor should tell admins if they can't make it in order to have another mentor for the student.
Mentor rights
- Fail a student :D
Advices
COMMIT EARLY, COMMIT OFTEN
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