Can someone from MacPorts help me with my proposal? There's not much time left. I really need some suggestion/improvements in the proposal.
On 25 March 2018 at 14:59, Vishnu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > I have submitted a draft proposal through GSOC portal. > Please go through it and do review and suggest changes. > > Thanks > Vishnu > > On 25 March 2018 at 12:59, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 25 March 2018 at 00:42, Vishnu wrote: >> > If i take up the project of improving the buildbot or the website. >> > would it be considered a different project? Or we both still have to >> > compete? >> >> Both :) >> >> > The other student could work on Option B and i could work on Option A >> > Because those also sounded interesting. >> >> First of all, any projects will be first and foremost evaluated to see >> whether the quality of proposal & and the "proof of competence" of the >> student is above the threshold. As Google said, "only OK" proposals >> should usually not be accepted, they need to be well above average. In >> addition to that, even if we get two excellent proposals we may only >> get one slot and then students will "compete" for that single slot no >> matter whether the projects are different or not. >> >> But if more than one proposal for the same project meets the quality >> standard and if we had enough slots to cover both, it's a complete >> waste of resources if two people start coding exactly the same thing >> and then we need to throw one of the two works away after the end of >> the summer. >> >> If one works on the buildbot side and the other one on the website, >> that's OK because the outcome would be a different code serving a >> different purpose (even if we have an excellent website with build >> statistics, we still hesitate to switch to buildbot 1.x just because >> nobody in the team is currently willing to invest time into learning >> some new javascript frameworks and figure out how to implement the new >> views that we would need; and the code could also be useful as a demo >> to other groups who hesitate to switch to 1.1). >> >> If you want to know more about the buildbot idea, you should ask Piere >> (CC-ed in my initial reply) and CC this list. >> >> To answer the rest of you question: >> >> I don't mind if one document describes two potential project, but >> describing one project well is already time consuming (and keep in >> mind that you are running out of time). If you end up writing two bad >> proposals instead of one excellent, you are doing yourself a >> disservice. (Writing one excellent project and drafting an alternative >> should be ok.) >> >> In any case don't wait for the last day to submit your draft because >> you won't be able to get any feedback and even if you do get feedback, >> you won't have time to improve it later. >> >> Mojca >> > >
