[samba-soc] getting in touch

[tridge at samba.org]

Congratulations to all the successful students!

The 3 projects I will be mentoring will be:

"Automated Testing System: Windows <-> Samba" Brad Henry
"User Manager for SWAT (Samba 4)" Pai Sreepathi 
"Samba4 support for an external LDAP server backend" Martin Kuehl

Brad and I have already had an initial discussion, and we've setup his
svn access.

Pai and Martin, could you please say hello on IRC soon? I am tridge in
the #samba-technical channel on irc.freenode.net. 

Could you also send me a ssh2 public key, so I can setup your svn
logins on samba.org. (or are you doing that already Jerry?). If you
don't have a ssh2 public key, then generate one using:
  ssh-keygen -t rsa
make sure you use a good passphrase! Then send me the .ssh/id_rsa.pub
file.

I haven't been a SoC mentor before, so I'll be learning at the same
time as you are. Please let me know if you think I am not doing a good
job of mentoring! It can be difficult to judge the balance between too
much and too little guidance for a student, so if you think I am
getting the balance wrong then please say so!

Martin, your main mentor will really be Andrew Bartlett, but I am your
'official' mentor in the program, so I'd like to be included in any
discussions you have with Andrew if you don't mind.

Some general policy stuff:

 - please commit everything you do to svn. Even if its half-baked
   stuff, or little test scripts and even rough notes. I've suggested
   that Brad create a branches/SOC/bnh directory for his stuff, and I
   similarly hope that Pai and Martin will create their own
   directories and commit often.

 - Don't wait until stuff is finished before committing! I hope you
   will be doing commits of some sort just about every day. 

 - keep technical discussions public, either on the samba-technical
   mailing list or on the #samba-technical IRC channel. 

 - for admin like discussions (like this email!) use this list or
   private email or private IRC.

 - if you ever want to chat on the phone, please let me know. We can
   even do a regular (weekly?) call if any of you want to, but if you
   ever feel you are stuck and that it might be helpful to walk
   through something on the phone then let me know. Don't worry about
   phone costs (I'll call you or we can use the samba team conference
   call facility)

 - I am in Australia, which means I am in a weird timezone
   (GMT+10). So we'll probably have the most overlap for real time
   chatting in your morning or evening. Try me on IRC to see if I am
   around.

Note that all of the above is flexible, and Jerry may have some
additional advice, as he has done this before :-)

Cheers, Tridge