Hey Pierre,

I meant more of a reminder rather than discussion being sent to devel (or devel-announce, as you said..) if we are trying to catch more people.

And yeah the deadline has really bad timing with devconf and fosdem... >_<
If anyone wants to help reviewing the wiki pages for what's possibly invalid, you're welcome to, but please lets move the organization related conversation into summer-coding mailing list maybe...


Best regards,
Radka
  

Radka Janeková


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 04:39:55PM +0100, Radka Janekova wrote:
>    Hi Pierre,
>    > This thread is a follow-up on an email that has been sent to the
>    infrastructure list where someone volunteered to mentor a student and me
>    just wanting to know what this person is volunteering to mentor.
>    Nope, that's different thread.
>    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZWIOTGRX2XMQMBMWOZ2E7OL5FEV2F2QB/

I was referring to this email:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MNQRF2BY7ZB42BWG7M2DVUMYUTDFFHCO/
which was sent as a reply to Corey's email.

>    > What would this announcement be about?
>    About "Info here, go here, write down stuff here." - relevant info for
>    mentors and ideas. I don't think that someone can forcefully come up with
>    an idea, if they want to participate a simple reminder "go write down your
>    idea" is enough, they already carry that idea.
>
>    And my whole point (extremely misunderstood and met with a lot of hate)

misunderstood clearly but hate I would assure there are none on my part. I would
even be curious to know what made you think so, so that I can, in the future,
avoid giving that impression again.
This entire discussion has (on my side) merely been trying to understand your
emails with the limited info that I have.

>    was that there is no point in sending this all to... Kernels? Join sig?
>    Etc. If anything devel would be a better place.

I can't reply for Corey who wrote the original email but I would guess he tried
to give an heads-up to people who contributed to GSoC last year, try to see if
they are thinking about GSoC already.
To give an example, if it hadn't been for Corey I would have had no idea that
the dead-line for GSoC subject proposals was that close, GSoC is a summer
program in my head and we're at the beginning of February so it was really not
in my calendar as something to think about right now.

Devel is not necessarily the best place for these types of discussion because
not everyone is subscribed or follows carefuly the list and also because devel
talks about a lot of subjects that would not (imho) result is GSoC subjects.
devel-announce would be a better place imho as it's lower traffic and thus
likely raises more attention (and hopefully reaches more of our sub-projects).

Hoping this clarifies a little bit the situation,
Pierre
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