On the other hand, this has been the single criterion that has defined successful students in Mahout (which is definitely less standards driven).
In Derby and similar projects, I think that this can be interpreted differently, but it still is a useful ranking indicator. Within the set of Derby applicants, this would be very useful. Perhaps there should be a countervailing feature that allows Derby to be marked as "project that is very hard for students to be entirely original in their proposal (+1)" would allow a global comparison to be reasonably valid. Or perhaps gating by number of mentors first so the ranking is mostly within the project would solve that. Either way, it is a very valuable feature for us. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Kathey Marsden <kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: > Is the project definition and idea originally the mentee's, the >> mentor's or a collaborative effort? (0-2 points, 2 if mentee's idea, 1 >> if collaborative, 0 if mentor's) >> >> I think this one is tricky. In a standards based product like Derby > there is not that much room for creativity in the initial "idea" and > projects are mostly based on existing Jira entries. Also really everything > is collaborative in the community and that should be encouraged. I think > I'd rather see this one left out.
