Hi Siebrand, moving your feedback about process to the list.
On 05/06/2013 01:12 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote:
Here is my ranking
(snip, thank you!)
I would like to provide some feedback, too: The whole
process of GSoC
was very confusing to me. Students communicated on melange,
mediawiki.org <http://mediawiki.org>, and mailing lists. Some also
emailed me and others privately. This scattered communication made me
feel I was not able to properly inform myself of the feedback cycles a
proposal went through. Melange not having any capabilities to show
differences between versions of proposals, does not help - that's
unfortunately not something we can directly information. I hope that the
number of communication platforms for GSoC communication and
documentation can be reduced in the next iteration, to make the process
easier to follow to those that are supposed to comment on, evaluate and
rank the proposals.
Yes, I agree. If it was confusing for you we can imagine how confusing
it has been for many students. In the next iteration we will still have
the same community channels + imperfect Google Melange, but we can do
better at focusing the discussion
I was very able and willing to follow all of your
instructions from the
below email and the ones on linked page, until I truly understood what
following them would mean for me time wise. If I understand your request
well, you are basically asking us to read all proposals, take 15
criteria and all comments into account, and then rate all *subjects*,
not the individual proposals. I estimate this is about a day of work to
do well. I'm sorry, but this is too much effort for me with this short
notice. I've done the best I can with the time available to me.
Mmm well, no. And I'm glad you invested maybe 1 hour instead of one day.
Saying "the project I mentor should go first!" is easy. I'm asking
mentors to tell what proposals they think should be considered before
the ones they are willing to mentor. We have a pool of 38 smart people
directly involved in Wikimdia GSoC mentoring and I believe your personal
rankings will answer directly most of the questions.
Of course you could spend a whole day assessing each proposal in detail.
I believe you can go through the list pretty fast through,
double-checking a few proposals that sound interesting but you are not
familiar with. This quicker method has more room for personal mistakes,
but if there are 37 other people playing the game I bet the consolidated
list cannot go too wrong.
Thank you for the participation and the feedback! We are trying many
things here as we go.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil