On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:52:56PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 11:33 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain > > why an existing contributor does not concentrate his/her efforts on > > the choosen project instead of wasting time in other tasks
> Because all DDs are human, tend to have very large TODO list, and if > given more time, tend to work on their TODO list first? I'm not saying > that students that were DD did nothing of their time during GSoc, but > most of them failed their projects, which defeats the purpose of GSoc, > makes the GSOC organizers unhappy, and will probably cause Debian to > have less slots this year again. Er, by what metric have these students "failed" their projects? The summer has finished, and it's about time I summarised how we got on. We had 9 Summer of Code students working for us, and we had a 100% success rate this year. Woo! Last year we only managed 6 successful projects out of 10, so that's a major improvement. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/10/msg00001.html I really can't figure out what you're saying, here. AFAICS, we had significantly *better* results when choosing GSoC projects submitted by existing Debian contributors. Where are these failures you're talking about? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]