Gsoc 18 Project | Collect build statistics

[Vishnu]

Hi Mojca,

I have submitted a draft proposal through GSOC portal.
Please go through it and do review and suggest changes.

Thanks
Vishnu

On 25 March 2018 at 12:59, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> On 25 March 2018 at 00:42, Vishnu wrote:
> > If i take up the project of improving the buildbot or the website.
> > would it be considered a different project? Or we both still have to
> > compete?
>
> Both :)
>
> > The other student could work on Option B and i could work on Option A
> > Because those also sounded interesting.
>
> First of all, any projects will be first and foremost evaluated to see
> whether the quality of proposal & and the "proof of competence" of the
> student is above the threshold. As Google said, "only OK" proposals
> should usually not be accepted, they need to be well above average. In
> addition to that, even if we get two excellent proposals we may only
> get one slot and then students will "compete" for that single slot no
> matter whether the projects are different or not.
>
> But if more than one proposal for the same project meets the quality
> standard and if we had enough slots to cover both, it's a complete
> waste of resources if two people start coding exactly the same thing
> and then we need to throw one of the two works away after the end of
> the summer.
>
> If one works on the buildbot side and the other one on the website,
> that's OK because the outcome would be a different code serving a
> different purpose (even if we have an excellent website with build
> statistics, we still hesitate to switch to buildbot 1.x just because
> nobody in the team is currently willing to invest time into learning
> some new javascript frameworks and figure out how to implement the new
> views that we would need; and the code could also be useful as a demo
> to other groups who hesitate to switch to 1.1).
>
> If you want to know more about the buildbot idea, you should ask Piere
> (CC-ed in my initial reply) and CC this list.
>
> To answer the rest of you question:
>
> I don't mind if one document describes two potential project, but
> describing one project well is already time consuming (and keep in
> mind that you are running out of time). If you end up writing two bad
> proposals instead of one excellent, you are doing yourself a
> disservice. (Writing one excellent project and drafting an alternative
> should be ok.)
>
> In any case don't wait for the last day to submit your draft because
> you won't be able to get any feedback and even if you do get feedback,
> you won't have time to improve it later.
>
> Mojca
>
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