I was asked on IRC to review the current project proposals for GSoC 2018 and see how robust they are, i.e. how clear and understandable the requirements are to a prospective student.
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/ClickToDialPopupWindowForLinuxDesktop As described, seems like a really simple project. Important, but something that someone with the requisite knowledge could do in a weekend. https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/NewDebianSSO The problems with this have been discussed already and sounds like they will be addressed. https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/OwnMailbox There's still some template text here and the requirements are unclear. https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/RecursivelyBuildingJavaDependenciesFromSource This proposal could really be improved with an example for prospective students to attempt or an example of how this problem has been solved before. Otherwise the projects look pretty good and well thought out.
