On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mardi 15 février 2011 à 15:19 +0100, Steffen Möller a écrit : >> On 02/15/2011 02:49 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:30:17PM +0100, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> > 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. > I don't believe we should judge only on the subject but also in the > quality of the student's proposal itself. > Being a bit involved in Debian Science, I'll be very happy to see > science-related project in the Gsoc and I believe that they should > be dealt with the same importance as others.
That is the point of having an umbrella-style organization. As it has happened every year, many core DDs just don't care about these related projects as much as they care about core projects. As a result, they get very poorly ranked. I personally think that within the current setup, these projects are out-of-scope for GSoC at Debian, the same way that we have systematically rejected "Package software X into the Debian Archive". >> 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). > We could also ask for more slots to increase the chance to have > science-related projects selected. To be clear, I don't personally object to having Debian Med running independently for GSoC, with Debian or not in its name. I also don't feel that it would cause any significant loss of slots to Debian so that's not even a reason. I'm just wondering about the viability of such an independent endeavor. My personal dilemma here is that on the one hand I'm discouraging you from applying independently and on the other, I think these projects are out-of-scope for Debian GSoC. Of course it's only a personal opinion and the official position of Debian will come through consensus, which is why I put the discussion here. Arthur _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
