Re: [gnu-soc] [IMPORTANT] Next steps for participating projects and mentors

[Diogo Peralta Cordeiro]

Hi,

Sorry about my earlier snap emails. After some inside debate, we've 
decided to change GNU social's request to (3 required/4 desired).

Sorry about this mess and thank you for calling us to reason,
---
Diogo Peralta Cordeiro
Developer
GNU social
https://www.diogo.site/

On 2020-04-20 08:25, Darshit Shah wrote:
> I agree with Urs here.
>
> I would request all the projects to reconsider their requests. Tomorrow 
> is
> the last day for making slot requests. The difference between 
> "essential" and
> "desired" is which projects you absolutely want to mentor this year vs. 
> which
> projects you would like to but are currently unsure of or can live 
> without.
>
> It is highly unlikely that for everyone each project is an absolute 
> essential.
>
> On 4/20/20 9:05 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Hi Jose,
> >
> > may I suggest then that everybody reconsiders their decisions. I can't
> > really imagine how *all* groups only have "essential" slot requests.
> >
> > Best
> > Urs
> >
> > Am Montag, den 20.04.2020, 08:50 +0200 schrieb Jose E. Marchesi:
> > > Hi Urs.
> > >           so far none of the groups who have asked for more than one 
> > > made a
> > >      differenciation between essential and desired slots.
> > >      I am actually rather skeptical on the numbers requested by the
> > > maintainers.
> > >
> > >      Therefore we have decided to go along with that trend in order
> > > not to
> > >      get burnt for playing fair. So please change the slot requests
> > > for
> > >      LilyPond from 1/2 to 2/2.
> > >
> > > I just did the change, as requested, since it is up to you to decide
> > > how
> > > many slots to ask for, and their kind.
> > >
> > > Note however that it may be counter-productive for your interests, in
> > > two ways.
> > >
> > > First, when we ask google for the global number of essential/desired
> > > slots, and these numbers are the same, it won't look good.  It
> > > basically
> > > conveys the feeling that we do not really understand the difference
> > > between essential and desired.  That will surely lead to get fewer
> > > slots
> > > than the number of essential slots we get.
> > >
> > > Second, ff we get fewer slots than the number requested (which is
> > > unusual, but can happen) then we (the admins) will decide how to
> > > distribute them, with no appeal.  I can tell you that a 1/2 really
> > > tells
> > > us more than a 2/2, when it comes to decide what is really essential.
> > >
> > > Anyway, its your call ;)