On 3/30/2011 12:13 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
For what it's worth I've also made it clear that making these changes at this
point is totally unreasonable. This is creating work for our admins - like they
need more work.
It is strange that every year they seem to work on melange, it is always
different but I can't say that it has ever improved. Maybe there is
something intrinsically hard about developing an application that is
used just once a year.
Certainly it is not helpful to introduce such changes to students,
mentors and admins the day the program kicks off.
If there are a number of issues like this I strongly suggest considering using
a spreadsheet for the evaluation (assuming the new interface enables us to
export the data). The reason I say this is that this system has been evolved
and fine tuned over the last 6 years. It has been very hard developing a system
that everyone feels is fair, trying to come up with a new one now will require
new documentation and discussion.
I agree we should do what is needed to keep our rubric even if we have
to supplement melange with a spreadsheet or whatever to determine the
proper ranking and then input it to match the new software. Maybe
when the scoring period starts mentors should just put each score as
part of a comment as described in our process[1] but not assign actual
points. Then at least the scores and the reasons should be visible to
the community while we figure out how to conform to the new system
Thanks
Kathey
[1]http://community.apache.org/mentee-ranking-process.html
