Hi Google Support, I just got received my mentors evaluation and I would like request Google to kindly reevaluate my final outcome. I would like to point out my mentors each evaluation each point into you kind consideration.
I am sorry that the project seems to have failed. I mentioned on the midterm evaluation that I was concerned about the lack of progress on the project, and unfortunately the pace only got slower after that. I think that the biggest problem that we had was that you simply did not dedicate enough time to the project to succeed. When we were in the project selection phase, you said that you could dedicate 35 hours a week to the project. However, this turned out to be a wild overestimate. I doubt that you spent more than 5 hours a week during any week, and for many weeks, First of all my mentor I would like to mention my mentor has never spent with me at lease one or two hour each week. Even though we have agreed to share the status by each twice week, he has always ask for status without even let me what to do with my project without any guidance. Sometime I got even stuck he has never even shed light, right from the beginning I learned their project deployment, and I worked out their development environment from my own. Apache htrace is still incubator process doesnt even have proper documentation. Expectation from my mentor is unacceptable under this conditions. He always say "You need to ask questions" If you can read until last of my mentor evaluation , he even himself agreed that even at last moment I have worked towards completion of project. There s not much left in this project. Theres no way one can do that without working at 5 hour per week. And you seem to have spent 0 hours-- not even bothering to respond to emails or send a status update. It's very frustrating when a student becomes uncommunicative for almost a full month at a time. This is a complete false statement I have never been in active for full one month. I have only been inactive maximum close for two weeks. This is personal mail Colin my mentor and we agreed to move on. After two weeks inactivity this is the email I got from my mentor, Hi Nisala, You've been unresponsive for half a month. I'm concerned about the project. Frankly I feel like we might not have time to finish now, since you took such a long unannounced break in the middle. The final evaluation is on August 15th. Let's think about this more and how we could prevent it from happening again in the future. best, Colin This is his personal mail from him for my maximum inactivity for two weeks and we agreed to move on by JULY 19. My single biggest suggestion for improvement is to respond promptly when other people try to communicate, and to stick to pre-agreed schedules of project updates and meetings. First of all we agreed only share status on emails we never had meetings, we have never scheduled meetings. This is the email from my mentor that we agreed to share status by only mail. This is on Fri, May 6 during community bonding period. Hmm. Video calls seem to be difficult, owing to the time difference and some of the technical issues. Instead, how about we exchange status emails two times a week. Monday and Thursday seem like good days to email. I'll start. A big part of Google Summer of Code is learning to interact with the community and learn some things about the project. I have only communicated my status updates via JIRA ticket [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362 where all community sees my project. You will notice I have completed his reviews which has put during the final GSOC mentor evaluation period. Because we both agreed to successfully completion in earlier. When you try to complete a large portion of the code just a few days before the end of GSoC, the community has no time to review it, let alone discuss it. Code review takes time. It's also very important to respond to all the comments people make in a code review. I remember having to make the same comments several times before you would address them. What I wanted to highlight is [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362 He still adds reviews for code that I wrote in mid term. If you look at [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?focusedCommentId=15333197&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15333197 He has never mentioned anything about kudu schema but now adding reviews regarding that end of the project at [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?focusedCommentId=15429907&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15429907 This is totally unacceptable rather if some one want to fail that project do something like that. I agree in one time I couldn't address his all his requirements at once. He is keeps on adding reviews for code that I written for midterm regarding kudu schema and handling multiple parents of spans. He mid term code review does not include them all. Even he has failed to answer which schema should use. In this [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?focusedCommentId=15437201&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15437201 This was his response about kudu schema, where he claims I should have looked some other code as he claims This is one reason why I suggested that you look at LocalFileSpanReceiver and HTracedSpanReceiver rather than HBaseSpanReceiver. Which is completely false statement, He has never mentioned such to me even in that thread or personal mail. I wonder whether he could prove that to anyone. He wanted emphasize this project failed because of me this which is completely a false statement. I am glad that we have at least a little code to start from when building a Kudu spanreceiver. What we need to do to get this merged is to actually complete all the tasks mentioned in the original proposal document-- develop a way to run the full web interface against the Kudu SpanReceiver, write good documentation for setup and deployment, understand what the correct schema to use to store data in Kudu is, measure performance, and write unit tests. This my proposal under [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14pnwHj5IsstCuBG3puD0x36KSmXxnglryRsfJcWP3Kg/edit?usp=sharing This the last update which I gave to him under comment [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?focusedCommentId=15428686&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15428686 Where I have completed second part of the project which has not been reviewed, and If he could provide the answer whether to use the webapp ( in previous comment ) similar to HBASE this project is done done. Where we have similar webapp for like HBASE or integrate to current main Htrace webapp. He never given answer because He wanted look this project failed. Even the current HBASE htrace recever has have so many limitations, He too much expect this KUDU receiver to be PERFECT which I believe, is completely unacceptable. In my proposal I have never mentioned anything about performance test for different kudu schema. Even in this main thread [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362 he has never mentioned such. These are totally false statements. However I agree on the documentation. The code I written for both span receiver and span viewer have unit tests under pr [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-htrace/pull/11 This completely false I have written unit tests for both span receiver and viewer using KUDU mini cluster utility. I hope Google and Apache Organization Admins will reconsider my evalution for GSoC 2016. In [1] https://gist.github.com/nisalanirmana/9ac0b8d34ee198f4dcafc64e6f84ba5a I have mentioned all the work that I completed. Since my mentor is first time mentoring, He think all code should be by mentor evaluation. Which I believe it is not the expectation. Regards Nisala
