[CentOS-gsocadmin] Final proposals & order

Wed Apr 22 11:35:37 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>

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Both of the proposals for kpatch are solid. Corey - is there a way for
both the guys to work together ? Would you be able to expand scope of
what you were to deliver out from there if you had 2 of them hammering
away at this ? Its clearly a complex problem space.

- - KB


On 04/21/2015 10:01 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 09:40 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> thanks for putting together the list, i will try and work
>> through them once from my side as well overnight.
> 
> OK, I'm marking them accepted but we have until 24 April at 00:00 
> (Thursday Midnight), unsure of timezone, when all mentors and 
> proposals need to be matched and accepted. We should be clear for
> the deduplication process.
> 
> On another note, I've been talking with Shaun McCance about how we 
> could sanely split the docs toolchain work up so that the students
> are not inter-dependent on each other for success (so each part is
> useful if they succeed or fail or have setbacks in the summer.)
> It's not entirely clear how we can do that yet, but I think between
> us two on mentoring side we can pull it off.
> 
> We're getting some duplicate possibly-accepted students with other 
> orgs, I'll be emailing the other org admins & affected mentors for 
> discussion.
> 
> - Karsten
> 
>> - KB
> 
>> On 04/21/2015 07:10 AM, Karsten Wade wrote:
>>> Based on the discussions so far and strength of the proposals 
>>> I've read, I suggest we accept the below list of at least 6 
>>> proposals in that order of preference. There is a 7th
>>> alternative to choose - one of the proposals that doesn't seem
>>> strong enough, and splitting the doc project in two.
>>> 
>>> Unexpectedly we have a difficult choice to make around the 
>>> documentation toolchain proposal. Both students are very
>>> strong, wrote strong proposals, are ambitious, and have been
>>> engaging well in the community (on centos-docs, for example,
>>> discussing together how to improve their ideas!)
>>> 
>>> There is a chance that the project could be split in to two, 
>>> independent efforts. This way each student could be successful 
>>> with their own part regardless of if the other student comes 
>>> through. Alone each part would be useful. Together they would
>>> be amazing.
>>> 
>>> I've asked Shaun McCance to weigh in on this possibility, as
>>> he has not only mentored GSoC students working on docs tools,
>>> but he's been involved in designing and writing docs
>>> toolchains directly.
>>> 
>>> What do you all think of that idea?
>>> 
>>> If there are no objections by early AM Pacific time, I'll go 
>>> ahead and assign mentors and click accept on the first 6,
>>> while giving us time to resolve about the 7th.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Karsten
>>> 
>>> 1. Develop a kpatch delivery mechanism Mentor: Corey Henderson
>>>  
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/louis_kragniz/5629499534213120
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
2. A Single installer ISO that delivers a functional Xen4 stack on
>>> CentOS 6 Mentor: George Dunlap Student: Gautam Malu 
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/gautam_malu/5629499534213120
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
3. ARM RootFS Build Factory for CentOS
>>> Mentor: Ian McLeod Student: Mandar Joshi 
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/mndar/5629499534213120
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
4. Implement and create new documentation toolchain
>>> Mentor: Karsten Wade Student: Kunal Jain OR Lei Yang Kunal's --
>>>  
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/kunaalus/5685265389584384
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
Lei's --
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/yangl1996/5629499534213120
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
5. Lightweight Cloud Instance Contextualization Tool
>>> Mentor: Haikel Guemar Student: Tamer Tas 
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/tmrtas/5741031244955648
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
6. Cloud in a box
>>> Student: Asad (Syed Asadullah Hussain) Mentor: Rich Bowen 
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/asadullahhussain/5724160613416960
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
Questionable ...
>>> 
>>> 7. One of the doc proposals split in two
>>> 
>>> OR
>>> 
>>> 7? On Premise Vagrant Boxes Hosting System Mentor: Ian McLeod 
>>> Student: Hanok Kodavatikanti 
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2
015/hanokk/5629499534213120
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> 
OR
>>> 
>>> Send back the 7th slot.
>>> 
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