Cannot mentor for GSoC this year due to time constraints

[Michael Vorburger]

Dear Ed & Mifos colleagues,

I'm terribly sorry to have to inform you all that, after due consideration over this past weekend, I had to come to the conclusion that I cannot mentor for GSoC this year due to current time constraints with my day job + family etc.

Unfortunately I just don't see where/how I'll create the capacity for the at least 2-3x 1-2h calls/week PLUS preparation/review etc. to be able to properly primary mentor a full project, such as the Notifications Framework we discussed on our call last week (based on my experience I had with Andreas last year).

My apologies that this info comes very (too) late in the process, but clearly saying this now instead of half way through later, and then leaving a student hanging in there, seemed to be the right thing to do.

As promised, I do remain available as backup mentor to Anuruddha for the Standalone Package story (incl. possibly doing minor fixes on MariaDB4j as needed by that project); feel free to email me directly. - Totally unrelated, and outside of GSoC, I'll also try to see if we can get Jagori Samajdar to build us some WD E2E tests (dep. on her autonomy).

I do hope to remain otherwise involved in Mifos, as time permits, and would love to have capacity to properly mentor a GSoC student next year again - I trust that all of you will find its a great experience over the next weeks & months!

Thank you all for your understanding,

Michael

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Michael Vorburger
http://www.vorburger.ch