On 27/02/08 at 18:51 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Absolutely, I agree it is not black and white. But this is the > responsibility of the mentor. He needs to be the one, who makes this > decision and he needs to stand behind this decision.
I don't know if that's allowed by GSOC, but taking the final success/fail decision as a group (with some sort of comittee) could really help avoid this dilemma. Seriously, I would hate to be a mentor and have to decide whether I can give $2000 to $STUDENT who: * is an active Debian contributor * did a few things on his project * but clearly didn't do everything that was expected, and didn't work fulltime on it > So for example if the student failed to do his GSoC project, but he > organized a Debian conference and/or other things, this is what should > imho be done: > > * the mentor should decide if he should fail him or not > * at the end of the GSoC, the student (and/or mentor) should write a > sum up, and this should be in the wiki. So that google and other > people can see it and see for themselves, whether the $4500 from > Google were justifyably spent on this project. > > So to answer your question - yes, I think it is perfectly possible not > to do every single bit of the application, but in this case, the > mentor needs to make sure he can back up his decision not to fail the > student. Publicly. Full ACK. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
