[Soc-coordination] Update: provisional number of slots is *still* 10

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:10:39PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 14/04/08 at 02:51 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >  + 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.
> 
> Absolutely, but that's one of the reasons why we should make the
> decision metrics public, so that they're aware of the kind of things
> that real engineers and developers are expecting. A perfect
> application would have all of these things, and while requiring
> perfection is unreasonable, we should reward students which come
> closest to acheiving it.

That would favour students who are in their later years of engineering
(or similar) studies. I'm not sure that's reasonable.

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