On 15/04/2011 18:57, Kathey Marsden wrote:
On 4/6/2011 7:01 AM, Kathey Marsden wrote:
On 4/6/2011 1:40 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote:
May be gathering such small factors will help to reach high popularity
in next time. Thanks Ulrich to bring this topic for a discussion.
One thing that occurred to me on this topic as I was looking at the
scoring of the two very good proposals we got this year for Derby is
that one thing that changed is that I think we probably filtered out
quite a few less serious applicants at the community level by making it
clear what the expectations are. In prior years I think we got at least
a few proposals from people that had not yet contributed or ramped up on
the project and some I can recall that were not much more than just a
cut and paste of the abstract. I think it is fine that noise is gone. It
was not a good use of the student's time to submit them or the mentor's
time to sift through them.
Yes, this is a good point. This year is the first time we've pointed at
community.apache.org, on there it makes it clear that we expect a high
standard of student.
Interestingly, it looks like we will be able to field as many students
as we did in previous years. So absolute values may have gone down but
quality proposals don't seem to have reduced.
Ross
