Re: [gnu-soc] [IMPORTANT] GNU GSOC proposals ranking

[Jose E. Marchesi]

>> Jose, thanks for your work on this!
>>
>> Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. ápr. 26., Sze,
>> 14:10):
>>
>>>
>>> This is the global ranking that we currently have for the GNU Project
>>> umbrella organization, in the GSOC system:
>>>
>>> 1. Porting Rust into GNU/Hurd
>>>    Contributor: Vedant Tewari
>>>    Size: Medium
>>>    Assigned mentors: Samuel Thibault
>>>
>>> 2. Integration of GNU Anastasis with the GNU Taler Android client
>>>    Contributor: Iván Ábalos
>>>    Size: Large
>>>    Assigned mentors: Christian Grothoff and Florian Dold
>>>
>>> 3. Parameterized Packages for GNU Guix
>>>    Contributor: Sarthak
>>>    Size: Large
>>>    Assigned mentors: g_bor and pjotrp
>>>
>>> 4. Fix Beaming Patterns/Beam Subdivisions and Tuples in GNU Lilypond
>>>    Contributor: Jason Yip
>>>    Size: Large
>>>    Assigned mentors: Carl Sorensen
>>>
>>> 5. Add a web user interface to GNU XaoS
>>>    Contributor: aurekabhishek
>>>    Size: Large
>>>    Assigned mentors: Zoltan Kovacs
>>>
>>> 6. Add a web user interface to GNU Aris
>>>    Contributor: Sakham Attri
>>>    Size: Medium
>>>    Assigned mentors: Zoltan Kovacs
>>>
>>> 7. Add compiled byte-codes to GNU poke
>>>    Contributor: etXzat
>>>    Size: Large
>>>    Assigned mentors: Jose E. Marchesi and Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor
>>>
>>> 8. Bringing GNU Taler to more platforms
>>>    Contributor: Joel D. Schüller
>>>    Size: Medium
>>>    Assigned mentors: Javier Sepulveda
>>>
>>> 9. Guix: Decentralised Substitute Distribution
>>>    Contributor: Vijaya Anand
>>>    Size: Medium
>>>    Assigned mentors: pukkamustard
>>>
>>> 10. Support for big numbers in GNU poke
>>>     Contributor: Georgios Liakopoulos
>>>     Size: Large
>>>     Assigned mentors: Jose E. Marchesi and Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor
>>>
>>> The criteria I have used to do the global ranking is:
>>>
>>> - To follow the local ranking of the different participating projects,
>>>   as indicated by the maintainers.
>>>
>>> - To have a first group of proposals (ranked 1 to 7 above) with
>>>   representation of all paticipating programs.  This will increase the
>>>   odds that all programs will be getting slots.
>>>
>>> - To then have a second group of proposals (ranked 8 to 10 above) with
>>>   extra projects per participating program.
>>>
>>> - Since I am doing the global ranking as the org admin, the two ranked
>>>   proposals for my own program (GNU poke) are at the bottom of these
>>>   blocks (positions 7 and 10.)
>>>
>>> Please review the details of the proposals in the system, and get back
>>> to me by replying to the thread if there are mistakes and/or changes to
>>> do.  There is still time to add new mentors or do other fixes.
>>>
>>> NOTE1: I will not consider suggestions to increase the ranking position
>>>        of your proposals.  However, I will consider suggestions to
>>>        _decrease_ the ranking position of some particular proposal if
>>>        the suggestion comes from a representative of the corresponding
>>>        program.  So if you think that a proposal X that is ranked below
>>>        your own proposal is more important than your own proposal,
>>>        please speak up now and I will do the necessary adjustments.
>>>
>>> NOTE2: We can do changes to the ranking up to tomorrow (27 April) at
>>>        12:00 GMT.  After that, alea iacta est.
>>>
>>> ZOLTAN: I am a bit concerned about the fact you are the only single
>>>         mentor for the proposals for both XaoS and Aris.  Google may not
>>>         like that.  You think you would be able to find an additional
>>>         mentor to help you?
>>>
>>
>> You are completely right. For XaoS, I have two co-mentors:
>> * J.B. Langston (co-maintainer) <jb.langston@gmail.com>
>> * Anurag Aggarwal (former GSoC student) <kanurag94@gmail.com>
>> I am unsure if they need to be registered for GSoC officially as well.
>
> Yes of course!
>
> I have just sent invitations to both to join the GNU organization as
> mentors.  As soon as they join using the web interface I will assign
> them as co-mentors for the XaoS proposal.

I assigned Anurag as a mentor for the XaoS proposal.
But J.B. Langston didn't join the program yet.

>> For Aris I am still asking two possible candidates. I will come back to you
>> asap.
>
> Ok.
>
>>
>> Best, Zoltan