On Sunday, 9 September 2018 23:00, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote: > My limited understanding was that GSoC is mostly about learning and > exploring, and not necessarily about delivering "perfect" working code, > though obviously quality code is a desirable outcome. > > For whatever it's worth, I very much appreciated how you engaged with > the LTSP community when trying to resolve technical issues; that is one > of the most important things in a healthy free software project, > development doesn't work well in isolation. Thank you vagrant and scott for appreciating the work. :) Yes you are right GSoC is not about delivering "extremely perfect" code But about interacting with the community and contributing to open source projects. I was going results from google about the students that failed at GSoC. I found this mail: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/gsoc-mentors/2016/000048.html In this, I read that the organization fails the student in very extreme cases. Example student disappears, produces no code at all, etc. This was not in my case. I interacted with the mentors daily, submitted reports on time, wrote blogs every week, made commits every day. One can have a look at my final report: https://gist.github.com/d78ui98/138c986dffc4d7a094e3ec1c63b545ba This is why I dont think I deserve to get failed. Also the mentor dashamir did not follow some guidelines like communicating with the admins before failing as mentioned in the official guideline by GSoC: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/responsibilities#mentor_responsibilities I informed him about this. He replied very rudely. He said "GSoC is over, what do you want? Next time you can try to select a better mentor." I don't think mentors should talk to their students like this. I informed about this to Google as well. They still think that it was organizations decision to fail a student and that's why they are not properly taking a look at the final evaluation result. I did get a lot of technical and social experience from GSoC. But putting in lot of work and then failing is bothering me. I cannot even say in my resume that I was a GSoC student at Debian. The project has been removed from GSoC completely. I am not sure what should I do here. regards deepanshu
