Greetings, SoC Students!
One of the requirements for completing Summer of Code (aka, getting paid! ;)) is to post weekly status reports about your project each Tuesday. These reports should go in your projects' wiki pages (following the template) in a section marked "Status updates." Ah, yes. You didn't think this whole summer was going to be nothing but fun, sun, and code, did you now? ;) Just kidding. :)
Now, as we all know, writing status reports takes away from valuable coding time. That's why all we're looking for is 3 sentences from you each week:
- What did you get done this week?
- What are you planning to do over the next week?
- Is there anything you're blocked on?
Of course, if you want to write MORE than three sentences, feel free to do that. :) But we do require this minimum. If you're NOT doing that promptly each week, then the admins start to get a little twitchy, especially if we're also not seeing you on IRC, and especially if we're not seeing CVS commits from you. If you're blocked by finals, cool, just tell us that. If you're blocked because your mentor is being unresponsive to your e-mails, definitely tell us that too (you can also do this privately, if you wish). But basically, just keep in communication about what's going on, and we'll work together to make the summer go swimmingly. :)
Plus, it's kind of fun, believe it or not, to go back through your old status reports and realize how much you really learned over the course of SoC. And you might find that questions you struggled with week 1 you're helping 2+ year old Drupal veterans with on IRC by week 6. :)
Thanks to the students who have already been on top of this. To everyone else, hope to see your wiki pages updated tomorrow!