[CentOS-gsocadmin] Final proposals & order

Wed Apr 22 20:32:54 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 04/22/2015 07:07 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Lightweight Cloud Instance Contextualization Tool
> Tamer Tas

this guy was good - do we know what project he's scoping up apart from us ?

> 
> Cloud in a box (Mentor: Rich Bowen )
> Asad
> 
> 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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