I wanted to give everyone here a heads up that SpringSource is looking at some form of outreach to get some university students involved in the Apache Tomcat project. The exact details are TBD but is likely to be some form of pay per bug fix scheme starting in this autumn combined with a summer internship next summer (2011). I will be managing this scheme for SpringSource.
SpringSource's primary motivation is recruitment (after all, an internship makes a very good 8-12 week long job interview) but this scheme should also bring benefits to the ASF in terms of additional resources looking at Tomcat bugs / enhancements. The scheme will be small (2-3 students) to start with but may increase in size if deemed successful. I don't have much in the way of plans for what the students will work on at this stage. For the bug fixing, I plan to pick bugs to ask the students to work on based on what is open at the time and what I think needs fixing first. For the summer internships, I have no plans at present. I'll probably be soliciting ideas Feb/Mar time next year. All the work will be done on the lists, in bugzilla etc with any patches treated the same way as any other bug (although I might look at a patch from a student little quicker than normal). There will be some stuff off-list but I intend to limit that to the administrative side of the scheme (sorting out paperworks, payments etc) with any technical discussions being on the dev list. Essnetially, the same way as GSoC is managed at the moment. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
