Re: [IMPORTANT] Requesting essential and desired slots

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Jose,

Name: GNU Wget
EssentialSlots: 3
DesiredSlots: 3

We have some very high quality applications this year and enough mentors willing 
to take them on. :)

On 04/07, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> Hi Hackers.
>
> The next organizational milestone is approaching: in a week we have to
> tell Google how many slots we want for this year.  As in previous years,
> we will follow the next strategy:
>
> Each project participating under the GNU umbreall shall send the
> following information to this mailing list, before Saturday 11 April
> 12:00:
>
>  Name: PROGRAM_NAME
>  EssentialSlots: N
>  DesiredSlots: M
>
> Where N and M are the number of slots required and desired.
>
> Roughly speaking, essential slots are for great projects you couldn't
> live without while desired slots are the number of slots you would like
> to have if Google had an infinite number of them.  For example, imagine
> that you received two proposals: one great and the other nah-nah.
> However, you still have a free mentor for the second proposal, so you
> would ask for:
>
>  Name: PROGRAM_NAME
>  EssentialSlots: 1
>  DesiredSlots: 2
>
> An important note: as we did in the previous editions of GSoC, we will
> distribute the granted slots in the spirit of allowing every GNU program
> participating to actually mentor at least one proposal.  This means
> that, G being the number of granted slots:
>
> - If GNUDesiredSlots <= G everyone gets what they asked for.
>
> - If GNUEssentialSlots <= G < GNUDesiredSlots, everyone gets their
>  essential slots, at least 1, but we would need to discuss and decide
>  how to distribute the desired slots.
>
> - If 0 < G < GNUEssentialSlots, we will have to discuss and see which
>  project gets the slots.  Note that this _never_ happened and I dont
>  expect this year to be the first one.
>
> IMPORTANT: please respect the milestone!  If a participating GNU project
> fails to send the email before Saturday 11 April 12:00, we may request
> either Essential=1,Desired=1 or Essential=0,Desired=0 for that project,
> depending on the admins criteria.
>
> Salud!

--
Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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