Google Summer of Code 2016
- Setup your Blog, Phabricator, GitHub, WikiToLearn account
- Setup your Project page (section above, example here)
- Review your proposal with your mentor
- Make a list of dates (weeks or 2+ days) you might not be available on (because of school exams, holidays, anything) and send it to your mentor.
- Inform upstream about your work during this GSoC
- They will be happy to hear you are working on improving their work
- Reaching out ASAP is good practice, so you already have contact if you need their help
- Install a local WikiToLearn instance (more info here)
- Play with VisualEditor
- You have to enable it by switching in the correct branch of the repo
- Try both using it and understanding how it works under the hood (since you will work with it in the summer)
- Try to update MediaWiki on WikiToLearn to the latest version.
- Use the communication channels often
- Use the tech channel for every problem with WTL’s instance
- Use the WTL editor GSoC group when working on the tasks
- Use the Mailing List to announce big changes, discuss and gather feedback
- The mentors (and the whole WTL community) are here to help
- We are your friends
- Don't be scared to ask us feedback, ideas, help or guidelines on how to proceed!
- If you need a few days to relax, to study, to find inspiration, to go on holiday, we are very much OK with that! But just tell us a few days before :)