Largely copied from http://groups.google.com/group/mono-soc-2007/web/reference

Congratulations and welcome to WordPress Google Summer of Code 2007!

Introduction

You will want to familiarize yourself with the the Developer Documentation page in the WordPress Codex Wiki, and also the Developer FAQ.

Licensing: All of the code submitted must be contributed under the terms of the GPL license.

 

Acceptance criteria: the results must be maintainable and clean. If the code works as advertised but its a quick hack or something we would have to rewrite from scratch, we would not accept the project as completed.

 

We would rather have a maintainable, clean and incomplete piece of code that we could extend than a complete but unmaintainable piece of code.

Starting

Students should should create a page in this group for their project including an up to date project description with any necessary adjustments that were discussed during the evaluation phase.   This document will serve as the basis for evaluating whether the project was completed at the end of the Summer of Code program.  

Students and mentors should sign off on the agreed development plan. This will become the acceptance criteria.

Blogs and Status Reports

We encourage students to blog their progress as they go, and to post as often as they want. 

Students are expected to post weekly status reports every Friday or earlier, before leaving for the weekend on this group (wordpress-soc-2007).   The status report can be as long as you want, but you should provide the following information every week:

• What you accomplished this week.
  
• What are your plans for the upcoming week.
• Report any challenges or problems that you might be facing,
• Report interesting resources that helped you during the week.

The above is very important: it will help your mentor course-correct or assist you in case you are running into problems, and will help you redefine the goals if a project becomes too big.

You can use the status report as the content for your blog.

Communicating with your Mentor.

We encourage discussion to happen on this public list (wordpress-soc-2007) instead of using private email with your mentor.   The public emails will allow other mentors, community members, and students to comment on the challenges and issues that you might run into, and will also become a good way for others to learn from your experiences.

We are a very distributed group, so email is always best. We also have a number of IRC channels that you can visit on the irc.freenode.org server, in particular #wordpress-dev and #wordpress.

Code Hosting

We have created a special code hosting project at Google for students to upload their work.  The project hosting is located at http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-soc-2007/ 

Check out the source code from it, there is a directory for each student participating, you should put all of your work in that directory.   

Some students will be working against a piece of code maintained in the main WordPress repository, those will also start using the code.google.com SVN repository and keep their code in the code.google.com repository updated as required by Google Summer of Code.

Once again, welcome, it is going to be a great summer!