On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz < bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jameson Quinn wrote: > > Honestly, this is news to me. (and I am the co-administrator of the > > Sugarlabs program). If I had to articulate my view of our priorities, it > > would be something like the following: > > > > 7-10 points: Key sugar core improvements. Long-standing, important gaps > like > > versioning or unit-tests at the high end of this. > > As others have pointed out many times, the SoC projects that are least > likely to produce useful results are the ones that are the most ambitious. > In particular, it is difficult to find SoC applicants who are ready to > make deep modifications to an existing codebase, or will be able to > architect complex software. Remember, SoC applicants are mostly current > undergrads, so most have never participated in multi-person development > effort, or written anything larger than 1000 lines. Agreed. However, I think that a relatively-skilled GSoC student could take on one of the tasks I mentioned. Versioning could build on CScott's OLPCFS2, which AFAIK works remarkably well; it really only needs an interface and maybe a converter. Unit tests require a harness (and Sugarbot already exists) and a couple of demo self-tests of the harness; the tests themselves would be a separate story. Yet it is true, both of these would still be ambitious, and would probably be scored down because of it. > > > > 0-8 points: Proposal quality. > > Maybe this problem is wrapped up in "Proposal quality". If I were > designing a system to reflect my own internal judgment structure, I would > probably add another /multiplying/ factor, the estimated probability of > success (although I hope we can do selection without resorting to > numerical scores.) I agree. The numbers are only a way of communicating, not a proposed system for choosing.
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