On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:27:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> And again: Priorities still should (and *are*) new contributors, and >> IMNSHO Arthur did mention that quite well in his message. The decisions >> in the past were also along that lines. Could the people that whine >> about that Phil was a GSoC student last year (and Jeroen the year before >> and ...) actually *check* what alternatives there were before they start >> a witch hunt? > >FWIW, I did not "whine" about neither Phil, nor Jeroen, not today, and >not back then. I've even been the mentor of Marga in 2006 (IIRC)! If I >had a problem with some of them, I would not have participated in so >many GSoC Debian years and I surely wouldn't have acted as the mentor of >a DD student. > >That's, in fact, exactly why I did not push for a decision once the >students were already on the field (i.e. in the past), and that's why >I've raised this discussion now, before students apply. IMO, it should >be a decision on its own and not related to actual people.
Sorry, but it *does* look like a whine that you and Lucas are continuing this year. I don't think there has been a problem with the admins and mentors using their own judgement about how to rank the applications they see each year. Please stop flogging this dead horse. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
