Thanks for the suggestion. I will not use any of the mail tracking artifacts. For the rest of the clarification, I will use the private mail [email protected].
Regards, Nitish On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:35 AM, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/04/18 21:01, Nitish Dwivedi wrote: > > Hey Everyone. > > Congratulations to everyone who made it through the selection process. > > However, I would raise an objection to the selection of particular > > > Hi Nitish (and anybody else who has concerns about selection), > > If you want to question something specific like this, please contact the > mentor or the Debian GSoC admin team directly using the email address > [email protected] > > It is a private email address and I would recommend you try to discuss > any concerns privately before making public statements about other > students and members of the Debian community. > > Please don't reply to or escalate individual issues to Google without > trying to discuss them with mentors and the Debian admins first. > > I want to confirm that I did look at your code, I was pleased to note > that you divide your code into functions and also check the return > values of various API calls while many other applicants don't do so. > However, none of the code samples from any student was perfect and the > code samples are not the only things we look at when making a decision. > Amongst other things, we also look at the ideas in the proposal, the > student's engagement with free software communities and a range of other > factors too. > > As noted in my earlier email, the selection process is difficult for > mentors. We usually have many good candidates for a project. In most > parts of Debian, we do not have to turn people away like this but in > GSoC we have to work within the size and shape of the program. Please > also remember that mentors and admins do this as volunteers. > > Regards, > > Daniel > > >
