Posted by webchick on December 7, 2007 at 6:57pm
- We are now allowed up to 200 tasks, rather than the previous 102.
- We are also allowed longer task frames than 5 days if we so choose. But bear in mind that tasks are tied up for the duration of their estimated time, so if we block off a task for 4 weeks and the student doesn't follow through, that effectively removes it from the contest. Shorter deadlines seem to be best, both for us and the students.
- Google's approved the use of "Study problem X and define five tasks that could be done to fix
problem X."-type tasks, which can help some with the task numbers, and also let the students have somewhat of a say in this program. If you have time to write a formal task definition for this, and can think of what some of our Xs could be, please write up a task suggestion to the Drupal.org GHOP project issue queue. - Tasks students are interested in seem to be: Coding (especially making new stuff), "Build a $foo in Drupal" and document it tasks, security-related tasks, usability-related tasks. Basically, most things that exercise creativity.
- Here are statistics of the program, updated every 2 hours: http://opentouch.info/tmp/ghop/ghop-stats.html. Currently, Plone is kicking everyone's butt with both the most completed and the highest number of tasks. Joomla! has by far the most students involved of any project. For the most part, this is correlation is directly tied to the number of tasks. Please help us create more tasks.