GSoC students: submission deadline

[James Aylett]

We're coming to the end of the formal period of GSoC, and our students need to submit their final evaluations _and code samples_ by Tuesday 23rd. (You should have had plenty of emails from Google reminding you!)

It is strongly advised, both by us and by Google, that before you submit, you have one or more mentors look over your submission page to check that it does everything it needs to do. I sent an email a while ago suggesting that people create wiki pages for this, but you don't have to. Since none of our students have, I assume you'll be putting the submissions somewhere else. If you want to guarantee time for us to give you feedback on your submission before you hit send, you should be getting this to us today Friday. After today we might not be able to get to read it, give feedback and allow you time to incorporate that feedback before submitting.

Of course, just because GSoC is coming to an end doesn't mean that you can't keep working on your projects. While it's often difficult to find as much time outside a program like GSoC, it's still possible to contribute to Xapian even if you only have a couple of hours once in a while. Something that can help is having a list of things you want to work on, so once GSoC is out of the way it's likely worth spending some time writing up anything that was a stretch goal or you otherwise didn't get to. If you add these as tickets to trac, you can then pick them up if you have time to work on something in the future.

J

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