Re: [ros-general] Setting up a pipeline to bring in student developers for ROS

[Victor Perevertkin]

Hi Vishal,

Engaging students into our project is something we do for a long time.
For example, there are several programs in universities lead by our
current/former contributors
on doing assignments and coursework with ReactOS (see commits like this
one, for example 
https://github.com/reactos/reactos/commit/73f6b44f8543ea386a590d290139d43b1…
).

Your idea looks cool, but I don't quite understand what are you
proposing specifically.

>   set up some sort of an incentive program (not
> monetary), one that 
"officially" recognizes student contributions

What do you mean by "recognition"? I see only one criteria for that -
"recognized" code is merged upstream.
What else can it be? At ReactOS it does not matter much whether you are
a skillful developer or a student,
people just take the task they are able to finish.
There is always somebody in our chats: Mattermost/Matrix/Discord
available for help (especially for a questions
that are properly asked).

So can you please elaborate on your proposal?


Cheers,
Victor