Hello, I want to ask some questions regarding the major concerns that you listed in the email about my gsoc proposal.
lack of the new features (mostly redesign/styling focus) > I had two major points in my mind i.e., usability and consistency. I did not wanted to make unwanted changes to make something new. Configuration section and Plugin section were the two main focus and as far as plugin manager is concerned I had really tried to make it much more compact and for configuration section I really believe that Gus Reiber design was good and I accepted that. Jenkins is complex application and changing things very much may affect its flow and cause problems. At the end of day, I did what I felt right but if proposal was lacking this point then why there were no suggestions given. unclear changes scope If these were the issues that you see then why don't you or anyone else from jenkins, mentioned it when proposal were being reviewed on the basis of their quality and scope. I attended all the office hours meetings and tried to get maximum feedback about my proposal everytime and changed my proposal accordingly, asking (especially Oleg) whether there were some things that my proposal is missing. You said to draft the proposal after the first look. private messages to mentors after several recommendations to use public > channels I send most of the private messages to you asking about proposal and all the stuff where I faced some sort of difficulty. When I was looking for a mentor for jenkins 2..0 project then I tried to contact R.Tyler Croy, Daniel Beck and other mentors asking them for mentorship via emails and irc. I was very motivated to work with jenkins that's why I send then private mails so that my message get heard atleast. I tried to get some help on private IRC chat and got scolded for pinging in person. I wish I would have got scolded much earlier or my mentor had mentioned this point very strictly if this thing values so much. Every single message was about jenkins or asking for help. Now I learnt it the hard way that talking openly values so much but one thing that keep* I dont see any open talk about project or any contribution from the student that got selected.* I think, I learned another lesson here that *valuable*-contributions, motivation and commitment are not the things that counts but the abiding rules count much more in Jenkins OSS. balancing between WebUI and website projects I tried to contribute to jenkins in any possible way long time before Oleg send mail to all gsoc students to contribute to jenkins in any possible ways. Theme of web ui project was UI improvements and I saw website's bad UI as a good opportunity to portray my skills that I can do the things that I had written in my proposal. I dont know how others perceived it. When I have drafted proposal for only one project then why I would be interested in doing some other project and long after that comes the point of balancing. I tried to ask some important things and avoid silly questions, but unfortunately vice-versa happened. I was learning jelly, xml and revising concepts of Js but in mean time I thought it would be even more better to spend my free time to contribute to jenkins. I did every single thing that I mentioned in my proposal. I made some small tweaks in main jenkins app ui and some other stuff that I found later in prs of jenkins repo as a improvements and asked Oleg whether to open PRs for small tweaks or not but no reply came. I am asking these question for feedback and not from hostility or to make arguments, this is my raw experience that I had in last one and half month. I tried my level best and gave 100% from the day I saw jenkins project on GSoC that's why I really think it is worthy to ask these question. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/1ed7a645-ff1b-4809-b591-3e45c54085c1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
