[Scummvm-devel] GSoC 2012 - Call for tasks and for mentors

[Johannes Schickel]

On 03/04/2012 08:08 AM, D G Turner wrote:
>    I'd be happy to help as a co-mentor i.e. answer questions, point
>    students towards right documentation or source file, and so as I
>    did this last year.
>
>    But I'd be hesitant to sign up as an "official" Mentor unless it
>    was somewhat clearer what kind of commitment this entailed.
>
>    The GSoC documentation says about 5 hours per week in time, but I
>    mainly mean what is expected from the Mentors, other than the kind
>    of assistance that we give other developers on the team.
>

In reality being a mentor means you are responsible for your student in 
terms of getting him into our community, checking his progress, helping 
him with questions he has about our source code, our workflow etc. and 
of course for filing the midterm and final evaluations (i.e. letting him 
pass or not).

You might very well point your students to other people, when he has 
questions or the like, but you are still responsible to help as best as 
you can, when nobody else in the team has time/knowledge about that.

// Johannes