[Nouveau] [Piglit] X.Org GSoC 2019 - Student Application Period

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:56 AM Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue 2019-03-26 @ 10:40:49 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> > Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid
>
> Thank you for taking the time to have a look and provide feedback!
>
> > but are there
> > people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO
> > unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived.
>
> Attracting mentors is probably the hardest part of running GSoC. Perhaps if a
> student shows interest in a given topic, someone might be inspired to sign up
> as a mentor?
>
> Keeping the list of ideas up-to-date and finding mentors are the two things
> I'm hoping to make a noticeable improvement to this year. It also ties in
> strongly with:
>
>         https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/76
>
> Best regards,
>         Trevor

BTW - I meant my comment to only apply to nouveau-related projects.
Both in terms of validity, as well as mentorship-unavailability.

It sucks for a student to come in, think that some project is
available to work on, only to find that there's no one who can mentor
them. I don't know how often that happens, but I bet it's "sometimes".
Better to get them to dedicate themselves to projects that do have
mentors available.

[And yeah, I know these are meant as "ideas", but I think in practice
it's "here's a list of projects for you to select from". Only a very
rare student will come up with their own idea.]

  -ilia