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[Ankush Sharma]

Hello,

Well, thanks Stephen for adding and clarifying things. Actually, I have
also submitted a proposal on the same and have been doing a lot of research
work on this for the past few weeks. So, I added up on the callback stuff.
Actually, I felt that it would be lots of work if someone want to have a
entire postorius like thing for node as part of the GSoC project. So, for
the time focusing on the port will be the best thing. So, I agree with
Florian here.
As far as the reasons you have suggested for not commenting, I will go with
(c) option and the reason being I was lacking on the term "Student" but now
things are more clear :-)

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
wrote:

> Ankush Sharma writes:
>
>  > I cannot comment on this as I am a student just like you.
>
> First, thank you very much for commenting in the first place!
> Students helping each other is one of the most exciting aspects of
> GSoC.
>
> But I think you misunderstand "student" in the context of GSoC.  It's
> an accounting term.  "Students" get paid, mentors get tired, er,
> "T-shirts", that's it!  Mentors get T-shirts!
>
> Other than that, we're all Mailman developers.  You can and should
> comment on anything where you have an opinion.  Some developers have
> more experience and skills, some have a natural talent for programming
> or design or building UIs and others don't have any of the above but
> need a feature or bugfix, and nobody else seems to want to do it.  The
> good reasons for not giving your opinion are (a) you don't have one (a
> common reason for those with less experience in the project), (b)
> somebody's already expressed pretty much the same opinion (in cases
> where values differ, you might even add a "+1" here), and (c) you're
> waiting for somebody else to comment first for some reason.
>
> That's a little bit oversimplified, but it's important.  I don't know
> if it's made explicit in the GSoC handbooks, but if you get a chance
> to talk to Carol or Cat you'll hear that one of the things they enjoy
> most is hearing about students who become mentors.  That's a core
> value in GSoC: the kind of professional growth that turns students
> into teachers.  And it happens in just one or two years for many
> students.  New members normally don't get that experience in a company
> (unless you're running it :-).
>
> They also hear stories about how that assumption of responsibility
> carries over to the new mentor's school and employment opportunities.
>
>