[Soc-coordination] let's look for _new_ Debian contributors!

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:27:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>>  And again: Priorities still should (and *are*) new contributors, and
>> IMNSHO Arthur did mention that quite well in his message. The decisions
>> in the past were also along that lines. Could the people that whine
>> about that Phil was a GSoC student last year (and Jeroen the year before
>> and ...) actually *check* what alternatives there were before they start
>> a witch hunt?
>
>FWIW, I did not "whine" about neither Phil, nor Jeroen, not today, and
>not back then. I've even been the mentor of Marga in 2006 (IIRC)! If I
>had a problem with some of them, I would not have participated in so
>many GSoC Debian years and I surely wouldn't have acted as the mentor of
>a DD student.
>
>That's, in fact, exactly why I did not push for a decision once the
>students were already on the field (i.e. in the past), and that's why
>I've raised this discussion now, before students apply. IMO, it should
>be a decision on its own and not related to actual people.

Sorry, but it *does* look like a whine that you and Lucas are
continuing this year. I don't think there has been a problem with the
admins and mentors using their own judgement about how to rank the
applications they see each year. Please stop flogging this dead horse.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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