| | 1 | = Summer of Code Guidelines for Mentors = |
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| | 3 | You as a mentor are there to help your student, review your student's work and insuring that your student makes progess. |
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| | 5 | Helping means that you should answer general questions in the problem domain, but do not write the code for him as that is his job and what he gets paid for. Instead give hints and smaller (unrelated) examples how to solve the problem they might encounter. |
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| | 7 | Reviewing means that you should know what your student is working on at the moment. Schedule regular meetings or reports (via E-Mail, IM/IRC, Skype) with them to discuss progress. In the past once a week has been a good rate of meetings, but you should figure out with your student which interval and medium works best. |
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| | 9 | Ensuring the progress means that you are responsible to help your student overcoming blockers by giving them the aid they need. If you don't know how to solve it either, give the problem to other mentors or ask the general development mailing list. If you student does not meet deadlines, it's your responsibility to let them fail at evaluation. Failing a student should be discussed with other mentors before so it cannot be considered as an unfair or biased decision. |
