GSoC on ASF Community Development

GSoC admins

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A comprehensive guide to being a GSoC admin for the ASF

List of duties:

Make sure the ASF has an extensive list of project ideas ready shortly after Google announces the program (around the end of January). Projects must create Jira issues for their ideas and label them with gsoc2026; and mentor. If a project doesn’t use Jira, have them create the ideas in the GSOC Jira project. Create a Jira filter for these ideas to use in the application (see next). Have prospective mentors subscribe to mentors@community.apache.org. The following is an email sent to pmcs@a.o explaining the procedures to them:

Hello PMCs,

Google Summer of Code is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new
contributors to your projects.

If you want to participate with your project you now need to

 - understand what it means to be a mentor [1]
 - propose your project ideas. Just label your issues with 'gsoc2026' in Jira and
   they will show up at [2]. See also [1].
 - subscribe to mentors@community.apache.org (restricted to potential mentors, meant to be used
   as a private list - general discussions on the public
   dev@community.apache.org list as much as possible, please)

The ASF has applied as a participating organization with GSoC, so your project
doesn't need to do that. See [3] for more information. Note that the ASF isn't
accepted yet; nevertheless you *really* should start recording your ideas now.

Last year we had XX students complete GSoC successfully, some of whom are
now active contributors to the projects they worked on. Let's make this a
success again this year!

On behalf of the GSoC 2026 admins,

Uli

[1] https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html
[2] https://s.apache.org/gsoc2026tasks
[3] https://community.apache.org/gsoc/

Update our GSoC pages at https://community.apache.org/gsoc/ with the current year’s timeline and at https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html.

guide to being a mentor

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Submitting ideas to the mentoring programme ¶

We invite all ASF projects to submit their ideas for consideration in the ASF mentoring programme. Any Apache member and experienced committers can submit ideas via Jira (if your project does not use Jira you can use the Comdev GSoC Issue Tracker For GSoC Tasks. We are looking for as many interesting projects as we can come up with.

Mentee Ranking Process

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This page describes the ranking process The Apache Software Foundation uses to evaluate mentee proposals.

The ranking process makes sure the most promising applicants get a mentor with an ASF project. The goal is not to identify the “best” projects for the ASF, but the best mentees who have applied to the ASF.

Remember, mentoring is all about the mentee and open source as a whole. It is not about the mentors or their projects.

Use the Comdev Issue Tracker For GSoC Tasks

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If your project does not use the ASF Jira for issue tracking, you can use the ComDev GSoC Jira project to record your GSoC tasks.

Add tasks to the GSOC project
Ensure you add the labels gsoc2026, mentor and _YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_
Your issues will appear in the list of projects
We use the label _YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_ to map COMDEV issues to the real project when we create the ideas list

Please contact dev@community.apache.org if you have questions/difficulties.