Attendees: JMM, Bruno, Kris, Alyssa, Dheeraj, Rajiv, Freyam, Harsh Pratap Singh, Jagruti, Ashutosh Saxena, Saarthak Maini, Mukul Kumar, Vandit Singh
Agena & Notes:
- Announcement of accepted projects
- Building jenkins.io with Alternative Tools – Vandit
- Docker Quickstart – Ashutosh
- GitLab Plugin Modernization – Harsh
- Plugin Health Probes – Jagruti
- Welcome and congrats to accepted GSoC contributors
- Addressing rejected proposals by JMM
- Encouraging continued involvement in open-source to everyone by JMM
- Addressing Harsh Gupta’s initiative to start contributing to dropped Displaying Plugin Scores project as example
- If you didn’t get accepted it’s encouraged that you stay engage and remain active, join SIG group(s), submit your ideas as PR(s), Hacktoberfest in October - these are great learnings to apply
- Questions:
- Saarthak asks about proposal quality
- JMM: Prefer to discuss this one-on-one
- Jagruit asks about mentor availability
- JMM: Should follow up with Jake to see if the project could be started first without the Lead Mentor Adrien
- JMM: Contributors should update their bios and project pages
- Abstract of the projects
- Some links
- Blog post should be prepared towards the end of the project, this could be planned ahead
- Saarthak asks about proposal quality
- We will continue to hold the GSoC Office Hours at the same time (Thursdays on 3pm UTC) on a weekly basis
- Anyone can participate, but is focused on the contributors’ progress
- Not mandatory, but highly recommend mentors and contributors to join
- Gives us a sense of community