Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010

Subject: Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010
From: Andrew Sutton (andrew.n.sutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-08 08:15:59

> Weekly releases should be mandatory for GSoC participants. I worked on
> Boost.Visualization during GSoC 2007, and they helped me accomplish
> most of my stated goals. Each week, I sent a list of promises to my
> Mentor, and worked like crazy to get them all finished and checked in
> by Sunday. He sent me nudges when I slipped a day, and I kept to the
> schedule I set out at the beginning of the summer. By releasing code
> each week, I noticed some of the bad decisions I made, and made two
> major reorganizations by the end of the summer. The end result was
> still poorly factored, but without weekly tasks it would have been
> poorly factored and incomplete!
>

Were you generating full releases each weak? I can certainly see how that
policy can be used to measure progress. That's actually a good idea since it
forces the student to think about end product as much as the code.

> Please consider exceptions to this rule :).
>

There always are :)

Andrew Sutton
andrew.n.sutton_at_[hidden]