-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/2015 05:42 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > Karsten, > > what I really wanted to ask is how the CentOS community wants to > handle 7, assuming there are always too many GSoC applicants. All > the other steps are understood. Thanks, & just getting around to replying, sorry for the delay. > What I did in the past was to organize 1-3 private meetings with > mentors to come up with a shortlist and figure out how many slots > to allocate. The scoring mechanism is OK, but people tend to give > their proposals often a higher score than they should and mentors > have different expectations. Coming up with a shortlist (or ordered > list of applicants) can be a bit of a chore for larger projects and > there could be disagreements between mentors of course. I don't really have any issues with that approach, it's different than what I've done in the past. I haven't had too many issues with not being able to sort out the priority order -- mentors are usually honest when they are up-voting for personal desire v. because they like/dislike other proposals. > And from past experience I found that it is better to focus on the > best students and the ones who engage with the mailing list very > publicly straight from the beginning. Those who don't rarely tend > to engage more during the program. This is quite true. Anyway, I'm glad we discussed this transparently here, but as it's about GSoC process (v. technical discussion), I'm going to start a new thread on centos-gsoc@ list to discuss our proposal finalizing process. - - Karsten-- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlUdZ4QACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEFV+gCeIpjgxA98v0ZSNPrXcJcKJNtc aXsAniJ9f54eaKoO4JUzVJ4/VvOhxRyE =YWre -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----