View source for Google Summer of Code 2008 improvements

=Some thoughts about the programme for next year=
Maintaining an Eclipse projects for SOC is a rather poor fit with the Eclipse development process.

For 2008, we should consider (note that these are just ideas for discussion):

* SOC Students must be treated the same way as other committers.
** Specifically, they should be elected into the position and are subject to the same requirements
* If a student's work is related to an existing project, they would follow the same process as anybody else
** Student contribute code through bugzilla like anybody else. That code can be put into CVS by a committer (possibly the mentor) assuming that it meets with standard requirements.
** Projects can set up an incubator if they deem it necessary.
** If, over time, the student demonstrates that they are a worthy committer, an election is held.
* If a student's work is not related to an existing project, then a separate home needs to be found
** For example, a Google Code project (which sort of makes sense)
** Over the term, the student can consider going through the proposal process to make their project into a real Eclipse project.

The short version is that GSoC students should not be treated any different than other committers.

This is good because:
*Students experience the real Eclipse process.
*It doesn't screw up our process, or reinforce dangerous precedence for bending the rules.
*Lowers dependence on Eclipse Foundation infrastructure to get projects going.

This is bad because:
*Will really only work if mentors are already Eclipse committers.
*Mentors become a bottleneck for getting code committed (though this is probably not necessarily a problem)

It may seem a little elitist, but it's probably reasonable for us to require that mentors be Eclipse committers.

* Send out project related literature after acceptance of an application/beginning of the term [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/soc-dev/msg00081.html (related soc-dev discussion)]

=See Also=

* [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/slides/GSoC_CreationReview.pdf Creation Review Slides]
* [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197059 Discussion & Review Vote]