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Instructions for new GSoC Mentors
Here are few instructions which will help you get started as a mentor with GraphSpace.
As a mentor you should be familiar with GraphSpace website and its documentation. So if you are new to GraphSpace project, create an account on GraphSpace and start using it. You can refer to GraphSpace Manual to learn how to use GraphSpace.
We recommend everyone to use an IDE for development. You can refer to this post on StackOverflow to learn about the advantages of using an IDE.
We use PyCharm IDE for all of our python based development. PyCharm also provides the professional version for free to students. If your project involves Java development, Eclipse IDE is a very good IDE.
Follow the installation instructions to install and run GraphSpace locally.
Carefully go through the guidelines for contributing to GraphSpace. As a mentor, it is really necessary that you understand the guidelines for contribution and ensure that students follow it.
Once you have gone through the guidelines, I would like all of you to fix or enhance the documentation for installing graphspace on a local machine. For example, add a description next to each requirement to explain their role in GraphSpace project. The aim of this exercise is to ensure that all of you have GraphSpace installed locally and understand how to contribute to GraphSpace.
One of the most important role of a mentor is to engage with other GraphSpace contributors (students and mentors) on GitHub. We log all of our technical conversations as GitHub issues. Try to answer queries on GitHub issues.
If you are a first time mentor, it is very important that you have contributed enough to GraphSpace codebase prior to GSoC period.
We have a list of issues labeled with good first issue to help potential first-time contributors. Incase you like to fix an issue, you can comment on the given issue and let us know. You are welcome to fix other issues as well.
As a mentor you need to learn how to review code. So please go ahead and start reviewing the recent open pull requests.
Let us say we are reviewing the pull request from melvin15may from b#262 branch.
git pull origin develop
git remote add melvin https://github.com/melvin15may/GraphSpace.git
git fetch melvin
git merge melvin/b#262If you like the changes, give a thumbs up on GitHub and let the moderators know that you approve the changes.