[CentOS-gsocadmin] Final proposals & order

Wed Apr 22 18:02:20 UTC 2015
Corey Henderson <corman at cormander.com>

I believe the student of the other kpatch proposal did have a higher preference for another thing but I don't know what it was or if he's selected for it.  Sorry I don't have more insight :-/

> On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 04/22/2015 10:34 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>> Neither. Merely stating that originally they were competing for one
>> slot and we evaluated the proposals with the baseline of one idea.
>> 
>> Now that the project proposal scope is being reviewed and extended,
>> they need to put up new versions of their scope of work. Either on
>> Melange or their code repo. This will ensure that changes in
>> expectations are documented and considered during evaluation. On 22
>> Apr 2015 22:04, "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> 
> We've also got short timing in that:
> 
> * Proposals have to be accepted and paired with a mentor by Thursday
> midnight (unsure of TZ.)
> 
> * The de-duplication process is going on currently, we have conflicts
> with 3 of 6 students where they are also 'accepted' by other projects.
> We need to work with the other projects to decide who gets the
> student. I'll be sending out the rest of those emails shortly.
> 
> For example, our #1 doc student has rated a higher preference for a
> GNOME project, so rather than try to do a last minute project split I
> may let him go there and take the #2 student (who is also good enough
> by far.)
> 
> So until we +1 _both_ of the kpatch students, we don't know if the
> second one has a conflict, and that conflict resolution appears to be
> manual (I think I saw the Google folks pushing conflicts manually,
> anyway, unsure how the notification works.)
> 
> - - Karsten
> 
> 
>>>> On 04/22/2015 01:11 PM, Corey Henderson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:40 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
>>> sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Karanbir Singh
>>>>>> <kbsingh at centos.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If this is being considered as an option (for kpatch and 
>>>>> documentation) please ensure that the students have a clear
>>>>> idea of the "new split proposal". Currently, they have
>>>>> proposed against one single idea. As part of the GSoC
>>>>> roll-out, the organization desires them to work on parts of
>>>>> that idea leading up to an integrated whole. The re-working
>>>>> and scoping of the proposals need to happen accordingly
>>>> 
>>>> I suppose one person can continue with the original scope of
>>>> the kpatch
>>> building and distribution automation, while the other focuses on
>>> patch selection routines and safety infrastructure. However, the
>>> latter depends upon the former in that it's pretty useless to
>>> have testing around something you can't distribute, should the
>>> first part of it fall apart for some reason. I suppose #2 is
>>> still worth doing standalone assume #1 is eventually done.
>>>> 
>>>> If you guys find this acceptable then I can work with them on
>>>> altering
>>> the proposals. What's the deadline of doing this last minute
>>> change?
>>> 
>>> I am looking at it mostly from the point of view that if we have
>>> the extra slot, then the two kpatch folks both seem to largely
>>> know what they are doing - is this the best way to use that extra
>>> slot.
>>> 
>>> Corey - if you feel that we can have two people hammer this
>>> through for a double the result, then lets do it.
>>> 
>>> Sankarshan - its not clear from your statement what the issue
>>> here is - are you saying that the two people need to have
>>> independant goals and work on an independant code base ?
>>> 
>>> - KB
>>> 
>>> 
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