[CentOS-gsoc] Process for finalizing proposals

[Corey Henderson]

Louis,

I'm unavailable tonight but I'll be online tomorrow night and will do the things Karsten mentions below. 

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> On Apr 2, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 04/02/2015 01:58 PM, Louis Taylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 09:21:57AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
>>> At this point mentors need to be communicating with students
>>> about their proposals via the Melange tool.
>> 
>> My mentor and I have been communicating over IRC, which has been
>> working well for us. Should we also move some of these discussions
>> over to the Melange tool?
> 
> It would be good for your mentor (at least) to comment on your
> proposal in the Melange tool for the benefit of the other mentors
> helping to work on proposals. A summary of discussions so far would be
> good.
> 
> If you talk via IRC, it would be good to put a summary of that
> discussion in the proposal comments each time.
> 
>>> The goal is to help students get their proposals to be as good
>>> as possible. We are not accepting/denying any proposals at this
>>> point.
>> 
>> Is the thought here that student will edit their proposals? If so,
>> editing must be enabled for CentOS proposals in Melange. Currently
>> it is not possible to amend them. If not, where should the amended
>> versions live?
> 
> Ah, yes, there is a switch "Editable post deadline" per proposal.
> Mentors should be able to change that to "YES" so that you can keep
> the proposal up-to-date. The change discussion in the comments would
> help to understand the changes made in the proposal when other mentors
> (or students) read the changes. (We want to share transparently not
> only what we're doing but why we're doing it, which is why discussions
> need to be transparent. I know you are doing IRC logs, but it would be
> good to have all the discussions at least be summarized in Melange for
> efficiency sake for all.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - - Karsten
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