#1 using students for projects
by an_mo
Tuesday January 20th, 2004 7:15 AM
>*Miscellaneous*
>- Grad student from San Jose doing a security project on profile data
This is good news and a good idea. The foundation should make an effort to get more students involved in development. Would it be possible for example to get in touch with a bunch of profs and have them to assign mozilla bugs as a homework or exam?
#2 Re: using students for projects
by mesostinky
Tuesday January 20th, 2004 8:31 AM
Yes and No. While students have contributed to a lot opensource projects there can be some problems. Its not uncommon for students to just drop projects when they get busy or gradute etc. Also there is a differnence between doing just enough to get a good grade on a project that happens to relate to an OSS project and doing work that is good and actually useful. Considering the great work that some students have done for OSS overall I'm definitely for getting more of them involoved, but I just wanted to point out that there can be some downfalls.
#3 you still have to go through QA
by an_mo
Tuesday January 20th, 2004 11:18 AM
never said you should accept their patches automatically. They'd still have to go through the QA like any ordinary citizen's patch
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