On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > I just discovered a new feature in the Google Webapp this year: > > --- From GSoC Manual --- > > Organization Admins Only - Assigning an Application a Rank > An organization administrator also has the ability to manipulate the rank of > a particular proposal to ensure that it is accepted, regardless of a > previous score or ranking. In other words, an organization may receive 2 > slots and decide it was to accept application "Foo" and application "Bar." > The organization administrator may visit the applications for "Foo" and > "Bar" and manually assign them a rank of "1" and "2", meaning these two > applications will then be the topped 2 ranked applications. The top N ranked > applications, where N is the number of student slots Google allocates to > each organization, will be those that are accepted into the program. > > This feature is meant to make it easier for organizations to make the final > choice about which proposals will be accepted after duplicate accepted > students are resolved, etc. > > --- > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2009/userguide#depth_appassignrank > --- > > > This may be useful in the final stages of re-evaluation to break deadlocks, > but I'm not sure how to use it (see > http://community.apache.org/mentee-ranking-process.html). > > In past years we have had to make multiple edits to add/remove sufficient > scores to get the right ordering around the cluster point. Eachyear I've > asked for admins to have the ability to add/remove more than 4 points at a > time. I guess this is instead of that feaure. Unfortunately I don't think it > will work for our process where we have anywhere between 20 and 50 slots to > fill. > <snip/>
That seems right. IMO, the process of affecting rank by admins manipulating the scores is more transparent (presumably there is an accompanying short comment any time an admin adds/removes points). May be possible to use the rank assignment feature by having a spreadsheet of sorts elsewhere where the admins do their ranking and just keying in the ranks, but then that spreadsheet / document needs to be shared with mentors (to achieve similar transparency) and scoring information gets distributed as well which may make things harder to follow. -Rahul > Should we change the deadlock process or stick with what we have used in > previous years? > > Ross >
