Re: [IMPORTANT][DEADLINE] number of slots

[Raphael Mack]

Jose, thanks for the explanation. As we currently do not have a clear
priority view between the two proposals, I'd like to adjust the Minimum
of LibertyEiffel to 2.

Thanks,
Rapha

Am Dienstag, den 05.04.2016, 20:49 +0200 schrieb Jose E. Marchesi:
>         what is the criteria to ask for an optional or mandatory slot (if the
>     mandatory are the minimal numbers and the optionals are the difference
>     max-min. LibertyEiffel for example really wants to have 2 slots, but we
>     have given 1 as minimum and 2 as maximum, to be fair to the other
>     projects under the GNU umbrella in case not all optional slots are
>     granted, by allowing a prioritization.
> 
> The system we use every year in order to allocate slots is the
> following:
> 
> 1. Each participating GNU project expresses how many "essential" slots
>    and "desired" slots they want.  This year Google changed a bit the
>    program and these are now called "minimum" and "maximum" slots, but
>    it is still the same concept, just different names.  It is up to each
>    GNU program to decide how many slots to ask for, based on the number
>    of good proposals and available mentors.
> 
> 2. We (the GNU org admins) add everything and ask google for a total
>    number of desirable and essential slots for GNU.  Like, for example,
>    this year it will be 19 essential slots and 24 desired slots.  Let's
>    call them TotalEssential and TotalDesired.
> 
> 3. Google gives us a number N of slots, that could be any number 0..24.
> 
> 4. We then distribute the obtained slots using the following criteria:
> 
>    4.a If N == TotalDesired, then perfect, everyone gets what they asked
>        for.  This happened in the last 6 editions of the program and is
>        the most likely scenario.
> 
>    4.b If TotalEssential <= N < TotalDesired then everyone get their
>        essential slots.  The rest of the slots will be distributed as
>        evenly as possible among the projects.
> 
>    4.c If N < TotalEssential, then we will distribute the slots as
>        evenly as possible among the projects, making sure (if possible)
>        that every participating project get at least one slot.
> 
> Note that in the potentially conflicting scenarios (4.b and 4.c) the org
> admins have the last word on how to assign slots to projects.