[Soc-coordination] Update: provisional number of slots is *still* 10
Lucas Nussbaum
lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Mon Apr 14 10:35:00 UTC 2008
On 14/04/08 at 02:51 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Here is my take on this (each top level item is worth one
> point), in order of importance:
> - Useful project
> - Relevance for Debian
OK
> - Good application design
> + Clear goal
OK
> + Good design (no NIH, uses available resources, clean design)
> + Clear set of fine grained tasks
> + Estimation of time required for tasks
> + time line and milestones
Applicants are students, sometimes quite young. They are not engineers.
You can't expect them to provide a perfect design at this stage,
especially if the student isn't a Debian developer yet. It's the role of
the mentor to provide design ideas, and to split the project into tasks.
What you are evaluating here is: "did the student asked enough questions
to the possible mentors while he wrote the proposal?"
I would rather have apps that shows us why the student is a good fit for
that project, than apps which just show the student's skills are
annoying his possible mentors.
If we publish criterias next year, I think that we should drop all those
criterias, or we will just get flooded by questions that don't need to
be answered at this time.
> - Student skills and back ground
OK
My take on this would be something like:
<---
Your proposal should include the following information:
- what are you going to implement? (describe in detail) Which problem
are your trying to solve? How is it useful for Debian? How does it
differ from the current state of things in Debian? If it will require
some changes to other parts of Debian, please describe them.
- Why are you a good fit for this proposal? Why are you interested in
this proposal? Which of your skills will be
useful? Have you done similar things? (Describe them.)
Optionally, you can include a rough schedule, but no need to annoy the
possible mentors about that. We know that writing a schedule is
difficult, especially if your knowledge of Debian is currently limited.
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