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[Vishnu]

Can someone from MacPorts help me with my proposal?
There's not much time left.
I really need some suggestion/improvements in the proposal.

On 25 March 2018 at 14:59, Vishnu <vishnum1998 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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