Re: [IMPORTANT] irc meeting synthesis

[Bastien]

Hi Giuseppe,

Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:

> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Do I understand correctly that mentors only rate *their* proposals?
>
> Yes, right, lest's do this at least till tomorrow.  So any proposal will
> just have one vote.

Okay, thanks for confirming.  

>> So, the raw output is this: if there is just one proposal for a project
>> it will be automatically rated as "amazing", even if the mentor (and/or
>> anybody else) doesn't have/take the time to rate it.
>>
>> Apprently I'm alone in thinking this is not a good approach, so let 
>> it be.  But this will just postpone the problem: when Google will say
>> "Guys, you have 15 desired proposals and 11 amazing proposals, this is
>> too much, we give you 8 slots", how will we proceed?
>
> No, you are not alone, but we failed to find a better solution which
> fits in a so short timeframe.  The problem is that we haven't much time
> to define these two values, especially as it happens immediately after
> Easter and some people might not even have access to internet.  We are
> not the only one who are surprised by this schedule.
>
> We will have a week later to rate proposals better, so we can aim to
> have a "global" score of them and everyone is welcome to comment/vote as
> many proposals as he/she likes.

Okay -- FYI I sent the GSoC Emacs-related proposals to the emacs-devel@
mailing list and I encouraged Emacs core maintainers (Stefan and Chong)
to apply as GNU mentors, so that someone can review the Emacs proposals
better than me.

> I personally think that in any case it will be a good idea to give an
> opportunity to small projects as to big ones but at least we will have
> the chance to target the "desired" slots (assuming we get more slots
> than the specified "amazing" ones) to better proposals.

Crossing fingers!

All best,

-- 
 Bastien