[Sugar-devel] Question about Criteria of GSoC'21 Ideas

2021-02-02 Thread Aditya Pratap Singh
Can someone explain what this statement means? > Do we have a developer *now* who would be willing and able to do it if a > student was not available, and who can *promise* to do it if a student is > not selected; these are shown as a *coding mentor*, > Source

Re: [Sugar-devel] Question about Criteria of GSoC'21 Ideas

2021-02-02 Thread James Cameron
Sure. I wrote it, as you can see from "git blame" on the previous years' iterations of the file. https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blame/master/Ideas-2019.md#L775 At Sugar Labs we have a long history with Google Summer of Code, and there are some anti-patterns in ideas that can lead to the idea

Re: [Sugar-devel] Question about Criteria of GSoC'21 Ideas

2021-02-02 Thread Aditya Pratap Singh
So, the idea shouldn't be requiring rocket-science level knowledge and should lay down concrete guidelines on what is to be implemented? On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, 12:08 pm James Cameron, wrote: > Sure. I wrote it, as you can see from "git blame" on the previous > years' iterations of the file. > >

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [ASLOv4] [RELEASE] Calculate - 47

2021-02-02 Thread Srevin Saju
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Question about Criteria of GSoC'21 Ideas

2021-02-02 Thread James Cameron
Some of us know rocket-science. No, it's all about the mentors. Do we have coding mentors who have the skills and willingness; i.e. the capacity to mentor the idea. Because one of the steps during proposal evaluation is for a mentor to select a proposal they are willing to mentor. Remember