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==During the community bonding period== | ==During the community bonding period== | ||
* Ensure you've introduced yourself in our GSOC 2009 [http://dev.moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=87 Introductions forum]. | |||
* Attend an online orientation meeting (details to be confirmed). | * Attend an online orientation meeting (details to be confirmed). | ||
* Create a specification for your project in Moodle Docs and post in an appropriate forum asking for feedback. | * Create a specification for your project in Moodle Docs and post in an appropriate forum asking for feedback. | ||
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* Chat with your mentor(s) and/or with Helen. | * Chat with your mentor(s) and/or with Helen. | ||
* Participate in the GSOC group chat ''gsoc2009@conference.moodle.org''. | * Participate in the GSOC group chat ''gsoc2009@conference.moodle.org''. | ||
==During the coding period== | ==During the coding period== | ||
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* Refine your specification based on feedback from your mentor and the wider Moodle community. | * Refine your specification based on feedback from your mentor and the wider Moodle community. | ||
* Add subtasks to your tracker issue in roughly chronological order for all your project milestones. | * Add subtasks to your tracker issue in roughly chronological order for all your project milestones. | ||
* Post your code as patches to tracker subtasks initially, then once CVS permission is granted, develop code in Moodle's CVS repository. | |||
* Post regularly in the forums to build a dialogue with the community. Advertise major milestones to maintain community interest and draw in new testers and more feedback. | |||
* Provide documentation in Moodle Docs. | |||
* Share your code by adding an entry in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009 Modules and plugins database]. | |||
Each week: | Each week: | ||
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* Have a meeting with your mentor. | * Have a meeting with your mentor. | ||
* Participate in the GSOC group chat. | * Participate in the GSOC group chat. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[GSOC]] | * [[GSOC]] | ||
* [[Development:Guidelines for contributed code]] | |||
[[Category:GSOC]] | [[Category:GSOC]] | ||
Revision as of 19:56, 17 April 2009
The following is expected from our GSOC students:
During the community bonding period
- Ensure you've introduced yourself in our GSOC 2009 Introductions forum.
- Attend an online orientation meeting (details to be confirmed).
- Create a specification for your project in Moodle Docs and post in an appropriate forum asking for feedback.
- Post in your blog about your project specification and/or your first impressions of the Moodle community. You're welcome to use the blog facility on moodle.org or an external blog. Please tag all entries 'Moodle' and 'GSOC'.
Each week:
- Login to moodle.org and read any forum posts of interest to you.
- Chat with your mentor(s) and/or with Helen.
- Participate in the GSOC group chat gsoc2009@conference.moodle.org.
During the coding period
- Refine your specification based on feedback from your mentor and the wider Moodle community.
- Add subtasks to your tracker issue in roughly chronological order for all your project milestones.
- Post your code as patches to tracker subtasks initially, then once CVS permission is granted, develop code in Moodle's CVS repository.
- Post regularly in the forums to build a dialogue with the community. Advertise major milestones to maintain community interest and draw in new testers and more feedback.
- Provide documentation in Moodle Docs.
- Share your code by adding an entry in the Modules and plugins database.
Each week:
- Post in your blog summarizing what you've been working on, any problems you've run into, and what you're planning to do next.
- Have a meeting with your mentor.
- Participate in the GSOC group chat.
