Changes between Version 57 and Version 58 of SummerOfCodeOrgApplication


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Jan 12, 2018, 9:31:38 AM (6 years ago)
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  • SummerOfCodeOrgApplication

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    1 = Google Summer of Code 2017 — Organization Application =
     1= Google Summer of Code 2018 — Organization Application =
    22
    33This is the application the MacPorts Project will submit to Google for
    4 Summer of Code 2017. We need to have this finished by '''9
    5 February 2017 at 16:00 UTC'''.
    6 
    7 == Name ==
    8 
    9 The MacPorts Project
     4Summer of Code 2018. We need to have this finished by '''23
     5January 2018 at 17:00 UTC'''.
    106
    117== Questions ==
    128
    13 Taken from
    14 [http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#2._What_should_a_mentoring_organization Google Summer of Code 2014 Frequently Asked Questions].
     9Taken from the past few years GSoC application.
     10
     11 Name and Tagline.::
     12
     13The MacPorts Project (Open Source package manager for macOS)
     14
     15 Organization Category.::
     16End User Applications
     17
     18 Technology Tags.::
     19Tcl, C, make, Git
     20
     21 Topic Tags.::
     22Package manager, Mac OS X, macOS, command line
     23
     24  Proposal Tags that students can select (one) from and apply to their own proposals to help organize them.::
     25New Feature, Optimization
    1526
    1627 Describe your organization.::
    17     MacPorts is a ports collection and packaging system for OS X.
    18     Created in 2002 as !DarwinPorts, we have an ever-growing collection
    19     of ports (currently over 22000), many of which accept multiple
    20     configuration variants. MacPorts itself works on both PowerPC and
    21     Intel Macs, running OS X 10.4 through 10.12, and many ports support
    22     a similar breadth of systems. As one of the primary means of
    23     building and installing open source software on OS X, MacPorts is an
    24     important interface between OS X and the rest of the open source
    25     world.
     28    MacPorts is a port collection and packaging system for macOS. Created in 2002 as DarwinPorts, we have an ever-growing collection of ports (currently over 22000), many of which accept multiple configuration variants. MacPorts itself works on both PowerPC and Intel Macs, running OS X 10.4 through macOS 10.13, and many ports support a similar breadth of systems. As one of the primary means of building and installing open source software on macOS, MacPorts is an important interface between Mac operating systems and the rest of the open source world, greatly simplifying the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.
     29 What year was your project started?
     30    2002.
    2631
    27  Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating?::
    28     Boosted by the success of the projects done in 2011 and 2014, we're
    29     eager to add new features and increase the user-friendliness of MacPorts.
    30     We're hoping to attract new developers that will stay with the project
    31     and work on new features and necessary refactoring of our code.
    32     Big goals this year are improving the dependency calculation and
    33     making the Xcode dependency optional.
     32 Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?::
     33    Boosted by the success of the projects done in 2011, 2014 and 2017, we're eager to add new features and increase the user-friendliness of MacPorts. We're hoping to attract new developers that will stay with the project and work on new features and necessary refactoring of our code. ~~Big goals this year are improving the dependency calculation and making the Xcode dependency optional.~~
    3434
    35  Has your organization participated in past Google Summers of Code? (yes/no)::
     35 Has your org been accepted as a mentor org in Google Summer of Code before? (yes/no)::
    3636    Yes.
    3737
    38  If you answered “yes” to the question above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.::
    39     {{{#!div class="compact"
    40 MacPorts has participated multiple times since 2007. Most of our
    41 students completed their projects successfully, and we greatly
    42 appreciate those contributions. We had previous GSoC students coming
    43 back as mentors in the following years; for example, our backup
    44 administrator was a student for our organization back in GSoC 2011.
     38 If you answered “yes” to the question above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.::
     39    MacPorts has participated multiple times since 2007. Most of our students completed their projects successfully, and we greatly appreciate those contributions. We had previous GSoC students coming back as mentors in the following years; for example, our backup administrator was a student for our organization back in GSoC 2015 and one of the mentors from GSoC 2011. I myself participated in GSoC 2017 with MacPorts.
    4540
    46 * 2007: 2 pass / 1 fail
    47 * 2008: 2 pass / 2 fail
    48 * 2009: 2 pass / 0 fail
    49 * 2010: 3 pass / 0 fail
    50 * 2011: 3 pass / 0 fail
    51 * 2013: 1 pass / 0 fail
    52 * 2014: 3 pass / 0 fail
    53 * 2015: 2 pass / 1 fail
     41 For each year your organization has participated, provide the counts of successful and total students.::
     42        {{{#!div class="compact"
     43|| Year || Total || Passed || Failed ||
     44|| 2007 || 3 || 2 || 1 ||
     45|| 2008 || 4 || 2 || 2 ||
     46|| 2009 || 2 || 2 || 0 ||
     47|| 2010 || 3 || 3 || 0 ||
     48|| 2011 || 3 || 3 || 0 ||
     49|| 2013 || 1 || 1 || 0 ||
     50|| 2014 || 3 || 3 || 0 ||
     51|| 2015 || 3 || 2 || 1 ||
     52|| 2017 || 2 || 2 || 0 ||
    5453}}}
    5554
    … …  
    5857
    5958 What Open Source Initiative approved license(s) does your project use?::
    60     [http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause BSD 3-Clause License]
     59    [https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license]
    6160
    6261 What is the URL for your Ideas list?::
    6362    https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode
    6463
    65  What is the main development mailing list for your organization?::
    66     https://lists.macports.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
     64 Link to a page describing how to join your organization's mailing list.::
     65    https://www.macports.org/contact.php#Lists
    6766
    68  What is the main IRC channel for your organization?::
    69     `#macports` on FreeNode (irc.freenode.org)
     67 Link to a web page that describes how to get on your IRC channel or other real-time communication methods.::
     68   https://www.macports.org/contact.php#IRC
    7069
    7170 Who will be your backup organization administrator?::
    72     Clemens Lang
     71    Jackson Isaac.
    7372
    74  What criteria did you use to select the mentors? Please be as specific as possible.::
     73 How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?::
     74    ~~Three.~~
     75
     76 How will you keep mentors engaged with their students? OR What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? Please be as specific as possible.::
    7577        {{{#!div class="compact"
    76 Criteria for mentors is based on visible experience in the MacPorts
    77 internals. Since Tcl is likely to be new territory for newcomers, having
    78 mentors that know their way around is key to successfully planning our
    79 projects and guiding students to completion.
     78Our mentors from the past years will be available to assist new mentors’ introduction to the program and ensure that mentors know what is expected of them.
    8079
    81 Rainer was previously a GSoC mentor, and as a MacPorts manager he brings
    82 great experience in our base code. Clemens was a GSoC student, and after
    83 completion of his project has stayed with us and worked extensively on
    84 MacPorts base. He can also be helpful in getting newcomers setup for
    85 developing in Tcl, since he went through it! Clemens assumed the backup
    86 administrator role when I moved from mentor to admin last year, and
    87 we’ve kept that structure this year. Lawrence is also contributing
    88 greatly to our base code, specifically ensuring packages are built with
    89 compilers they “support”. This is very helpful as some packages still
    90 don’t build right on Clang, or have legacy issues with old Apple GCC.
    91 His efforts allow MacPorts to switch out compilers based on their
    92 version for a given package.
     80A disappearing mentor has occurred once when we also had a disappearing student. When the mentor disappeared, another mentor (who soon after became a MacPorts manager) stepped in to cover.
    9381
    94 All these mentors fill our desire to have people knowledgeable of
    95 navigating our base code, which uses Tcl.
     82We’ve made it a rule that mentors will communicate with each other about progress and problems of their students and keep the communication on the public list, allowing for a clean failover to another mentor. This also helps with setting expectations and making evaluations.
     83
     84Projects will usually have multiple mentors, to provide redundancy if one disappears. If a student cannot reach any of their mentors, they should contact an organization administrator, who will have more contact information. If that fails, they should post to the development mailing list reaching a wide number of developers, admin, and backup admin.
    9685}}}
    9786
    98  What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? Please be as specific as possible.::
    99     We require contact information from our students as part of the
    100     application. Students will report their progress to their mentor at
    101     least once a week, via whichever communication medium works best for
    102     both. We know from past experiences that a student can disappear
    103     without notice, but if this happens we will not let them pass the
    104     midterm or final evaluation. We will make this clear from the start,
    105     and students will be urged to maintain regular communication.
    106 
    107  What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? Please be as specific as possible.::
    108     {{{#!div class="compact"
    109 Our mentors from the past years will be available to assist new mentors’
    110 introduction to the program and ensure that mentors know what is
    111 expected from them.
    112 
    113 A disappearing mentor has occurred once, when we also had a disappearing
    114 student. When the mentor disappeared, another mentor—who soon after
    115 became a MacPorts manager—stepped in to cover.
    116 
    117 We’ve made it a rule that mentors will communicate among each other
    118 about progress and problems of their students, allowing for a clean
    119 failover to another mentor. This also helps with setting expectations
    120 and making evaluations.
    121 
    122 Projects will usually have multiple mentors, to provide redundancy if
    123 one disappears. If a student cannot reach any of their mentors, they
    124 should contact an organization administrator, who will have more contact
    125 information. If that fails, they should post to the development mailing
    126 list, to send others after myself and the backup admin.
     87 How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects? OR What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? Please be as specific as possible.::
     88        {{{#!div class="compact"
     89We require students' contact information as part of the application. Students will report their progress to their mentor at least once a week, via whichever communication medium works best for both. We know from past experiences that a student can disappear without notice, but if this happens we will not let them pass the midterm or final evaluation. We will make this clear from the start, and students will be urged to maintain regular communication and providing work logs at least twice a week.
    12790}}}
    12891
    129  What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?::
    130     {{{#!div class="compact"
    131 We like to make contact with our students even before they submit their
    132 application, via IRC or on our mailing list. During the application
    133 phase we will refine and discuss proposals with other developers. In the
    134 program, students participate in our normal development process: They
    135 get their own Subversion branch to work on, all their commits are
    136 publicly viewable, and any member of the MacPorts community can provide
    137 feedback by replying to the commit system’s emails. We also like
    138 students to post status reports to the public development mailing list
    139 as they reach specific milestones. By requiring communication with
    140 people other than their mentors, we encourage them to work in the spirit
    141 of open source development.
    142 
    143 As we let students work as one of the project’s developers, we look
    144 forward to their continued development of MacPorts after GSoC concludes.
    145 Like any other developer, they will get regular commit privileges to
    146 help the project as they see fit; this also provides an introduction to
    147 future work. Multiple students have returned as mentors in the following
    148 years, demonstrating the effectiveness of this method.
     92 How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC?::
     93        {{{#!div class="compact"
     94We like to make contact with our students even before they submit their application, via IRC or on our mailing list. During the application phase, we will refine and discuss proposals with other developers. In the program, students participate in our normal development process: they get their own Git branch to work on, all their commits are publicly viewable, and any member of the MacPorts community can provide feedback by replying to the commit system’s emails. We also like students to post status reports to the public development mailing list as they reach specific milestones. By requiring communication with people other than their mentors, we encourage them to work in the spirit of open source development.
    14995}}}
    15096
    151  Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here.::
    152     //not applicable//
     97 How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC?::
     98        {{{#!div class="compact"
     99As we let students work as one of the projects developers, we look forward to their continued development of MacPorts after GSoC concludes. Like any other developer, they will get regular commit privileges to help the project as they see fit; this also provides an introduction to future work. Multiple students have returned as mentors or admins in the following years, demonstrating the effectiveness of this method.
     100}}}
    153101
    154  Are you an established or larger organization who would like to vouch for a new organization applying this year? If so, please list their name(s) here.::
     102 If you are a new organization to GSoC, is there a Google employee or previously participating organization who will vouch for you? If so, please enter their name, contact email, and relationship to your organization.::
    155103    //not applicable//
    156104
    157105 What will you do to encourage that your accepted students stick with the project after Google Summer of Code concludes?::
    158     We keep all students’ work in our source repository, and rebase it
    159     often so it’s ready to be integrated. Seeing a student’s code “go
    160     live” and get used by the project is the single best incentive. We
    161     also plan to keep in contact with the student to see if there are
    162     additional areas of MacPorts that might interest them for long-term
    163     involvement.
     106        {{{#!div class="compact"
     107We keep all students’ work in our source repository and rebase it often so it’s ready to be integrated. Seeing a student’s code “go live” and get used by the project is the single best incentive. We also plan to keep in contact with the student to see if there are additional areas of MacPorts that might interest them for long-term involvement.
     108}}}
     109
     110 Where does your source code live?::
     111    GitHub: https://github.com/macports
    164112
    165113 Is there anything else we should know or you'd like to tell us that doesn't fit anywhere else on the application?::