Re: PEAR it's own GSoC project for 2009

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 13:29 +0000, David Coallier wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I hope you are all doing well! After yesterday's announcement of our >> participation in the GSoC 2009 with the PHP project, we decided to >> take a dramatic turn and try and be a project on our own with Google >> this year. >> >> We have been refused a few times in the past and this year we are >> putting a strong and solid proposal in order to be accepted. The only >> thing that is lacking right now is the amount of ideas. So we went >> ahead and created: http://wiki.php.net/pear/gsoc/ and the >> page >> http://wiki.php.net/pear/gsoc/2009 . >> >> If you have any ideas add them to those pages and NOT the PHP project >> GSoC pages (http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2009). >> >> We are hoping to be allowed more slots and thus getting more work done >> on PEAR by moving it to it's own project. We have been self-sufficient >> for many years now and I'm sure that with smart ideas we could be >> accepted. >> >> So I'll say it again, if you have ideas, go and add them to the wiki >> or submit them on the mailing list otherwise we will remain a >> "subproject" of the PHP project and gain less slots and students to >> work on PEAR/PEAR2. >> >> Thanks all and looking forward in seeing your ideas on the pages, > > Awesome, I've added my PEAR package proposal to the PEAR wiki page! Guys one thing we need to keep in mind - We need to make sure the people that submit to be students are up to standards ... We need to define basic knowledge and min requirements for people on each project and when people submit to it we kinda need to probe them to see if we think they will be successful or not ... I know this sounds like a job interview process, that's because it IS ... why ? because they are getting paid and we need to expect them to excel at they are about to take on :-) Just a quick reminder so people can start thinking about it. Regards Helgi