powers of four

The real challenge of GSoC is not coding, it's learning to work with a community. And the first lesson is: communicate in public

An amazing discussion not only of Google Summer of Code, but of Open Source development in general by Matt Mackall, kernel hacker and project lead of mercurial. Developers on the yt project are in general pretty good about this kind of thing, but there are some aspects of the development process (and I am a culprit here too) that could use improvement along these lines.