[SoC] Review guidelines

[stephane ducasse]

I agree.
I think that this is important to rank projects so that ESUG can also  
used them for the SummerTalk effort.

Stef

On 30 mars 07, at 10:46, Giovanni Corriga wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry for having been silent for two days, but I had a backlist of
> stuff to complete before working on the Soc proposals.
>
> Here's a set of proposed guidelines for reviewing the applications.
>
> First of all, refer to the guide to the mentors app at
> http://tinyurl.com/29awt6 . The mentors app itself is at
> http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html .
>
> Applications: I think that every mentor should review all the
> applications. A mentor should also click on the "willing to mentor"
> button for every application they think they can act as mentor. Don't
> worry about the number of students you'd end up mentoring - we can  
> sort
> that out later, when we know exactly how many students Squeak will  
> have
> to mentor.
>
> Scores: the available ones are +4, +2, +1, -1, -2, and N/A which  
> really
> is 0. I propose the following guidelines for the assigning scores:
> +4 - We MUST have this proposal accepted.
> +2 - This proposal is cool.
> +1 - If Google gives us many students, we should do this.
> N/A - Meh.
> -1 - Something about this proposal is perplexing
> -2 - There are serious problems with this proposal.
> Again, all mentors should review every application and at least
> _consider_ scoring it.
>
> Known students vs. newcomers: Many proposals are by students who  
> already
> know Squeak and are silent members of our community (or would like to
> get involved in the community), but on the other hand many proposal  
> are
> by student who don't know Squeak and/or the tools.
> The fact that a student doesn't know Squeak shouldn't be used to
> downgrade his proposal(s), as long as the student has good OO  
> skills and
> is willing to learn the language and the environment before June.
> The rationale for this is that the SoC is a good way to increase
> awareness for Squeak, so we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss  
> newcomers.
> We should instead try to strike a balance between "squeaker students"
> and newcomers (but please not that this doesn't mean we have to  
> reserve
> half of our student slots to newcomers, though).
>
> SoC mailing list: this mailing list can be used for general  
> discussions
> about the SoC and the proposals. Details about the single proposal
> should be discussed in the comments of the mentor application.
>
> Any questions/comments/etc. ?
>
> 	Giovanni
>
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