GSoC 2013: Call for Mentors

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-3-21 00:25 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> Note that "A disappearing mentor has not happened to us" is not actually
>> true; in 2008 I had to take over a student after the mentor disappeared
>> (temporarily), and the student ended up failing the midterm evaluation.
>>
>> I'm not sure if you want to mention this and say that we've learned from
>> the experience, or just remove the claim.
> 
> For the narrative: were you an admin filling in as a mentor at the time, or a backup mentor, or just coming in as MacPorts leadership to fill the role?

I don't actually remember with certainty. I think I was a backup mentor?
This happened in June/July, and I wasn't in PortMgr until October.

Looking through my old emails, the other part of the story is that the
student had disappeared himself during the early weeks of the project.

- Josh