[Soc-coordination] Updates, finals and reports, oh my! [debexpo]

[Christoph Haas]

Hi, Neil...

On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, Neil McGovern wrote:
> So we don't have any unpleasant surprises, please give us a status
> update *NOW*. I'll send out more info about the reports and evaluations
> at the end.

We are not looking as good as I expected. The second half (since the 
mid-term) was a bit "challenging". My student assured me that we can make 
the deadline but I see hardly any commits unless I push him to do so. The 
software isn't in a bad shape really. All the basic features are working. 
And he says that he doesn't have technical trouble that I could help with. 
But we should be further in our own timeline 
(http://debexpo.workaround.org/trac/roadmap). Hardly anyone has seen a 
beta version yet and there is no decent documentation.

The student assured me that he intends to continue working on the software 
after the GSoC. But with the current amount of work done I won't find it 
easy to press the "give him $2000" button in a week or two. I hope the 
next days will prove me wrong. We are far away from the 20 hours/week or 
40 hours/week though as discussed on the google mailing list. I'm not sure 
what else to do to help him.

Wish I had better news. In any case I feel competent to bring the software 
into a proper shape alone if needed. So all is not lost. I just fear the 
final evaluation. :(

Cheers
 Christoph
-- 
When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
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