Hi Mojca, I have submitted a draft proposal through GSOC portal. Please go through it and do review and suggest changes.
Thanks Vishnu On 25 March 2018 at 12:59, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > On 25 March 2018 at 00:42, Vishnu wrote: > > If i take up the project of improving the buildbot or the website. > > would it be considered a different project? Or we both still have to > > compete? > > Both :) > > > The other student could work on Option B and i could work on Option A > > Because those also sounded interesting. > > First of all, any projects will be first and foremost evaluated to see > whether the quality of proposal & and the "proof of competence" of the > student is above the threshold. As Google said, "only OK" proposals > should usually not be accepted, they need to be well above average. In > addition to that, even if we get two excellent proposals we may only > get one slot and then students will "compete" for that single slot no > matter whether the projects are different or not. > > But if more than one proposal for the same project meets the quality > standard and if we had enough slots to cover both, it's a complete > waste of resources if two people start coding exactly the same thing > and then we need to throw one of the two works away after the end of > the summer. > > If one works on the buildbot side and the other one on the website, > that's OK because the outcome would be a different code serving a > different purpose (even if we have an excellent website with build > statistics, we still hesitate to switch to buildbot 1.x just because > nobody in the team is currently willing to invest time into learning > some new javascript frameworks and figure out how to implement the new > views that we would need; and the code could also be useful as a demo > to other groups who hesitate to switch to 1.1). > > If you want to know more about the buildbot idea, you should ask Piere > (CC-ed in my initial reply) and CC this list. > > To answer the rest of you question: > > I don't mind if one document describes two potential project, but > describing one project well is already time consuming (and keep in > mind that you are running out of time). If you end up writing two bad > proposals instead of one excellent, you are doing yourself a > disservice. (Writing one excellent project and drafting an alternative > should be ok.) > > In any case don't wait for the last day to submit your draft because > you won't be able to get any feedback and even if you do get feedback, > you won't have time to improve it later. > > Mojca >
