[CentOS-gsocadmin] Final proposals & order

Wed Apr 22 18:07:33 UTC 2015
Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>

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On 04/22/2015 11:01 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/22/2015 06:58 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
>> 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.)
> 
> who are the other 2 with conflicts ?

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I'm sending another big group email on both of those shortly.

>> 
>> 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.)
> 
> we can likely ping them, they tend to respond fairly quickly.
> 
>> 
>> - 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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