On 02/15/2011 02:49 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:30:17PM +0100, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> What is you opinion ? Would this be beneficial to the GSoC >> participation of Debian or would it be too much spread ? > > I must admit I don't see the point. > > Essentially, the proposal is to partition upfront slots among Debian and > sub-projects (such as, but not necessarily limited to,) blends. This > goes against a basic principle of meritocracy among proposals. Very good > proposals in one slot might remain out because in that slot all > proposals are very good, whereas not-so-good proposals will get into a > different slot if there aren't that many good proposals in that > slot. That, in turn, might reflect bad on future slot assignments *to > Debian*---as that is the name we're spending before the GSoC > organization---
I suggest that the organiser, or an organising committee, should only allow projects in that he personally considers as sufficiently good - whatever "good" means (educational, useful, large audience, technical excellence, ...). I agree that an uninspired project (to avoid the term "good") harms us more than leaving a slot unoccupied. > if it will happen that many proposals will, in the end, > fail. There is no guarantee that won't happen without upfront > partitioning of course, but I believe that meritocracy helps in > diminishing the risk. The prevention of failures should not be our prime goal. But I am confident that this is not what you had meant to say. > Why can't we just allow proposals from blends to flow in together with > non-blends one? If they are good proposals, I don't doubt they will have > chances to compete side by side with other proposals, on the basis of > their merits. My answer is that those projects are too different to have them compared directly. Stefano, Arthur, if either of you vetos the idea to have a separate organisation with GSoC bearing the name "Debian", then this of course won't happen and I do not feel any bad about it (who could I). Best, Steffen _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
