[Sugar-devel] Proposal Review request

[James Cameron]

Thanks for your mutual review and comments.

I've briefly analysed both proposals looking for plagiarism using the
pdftotext and sim_text programs from poppler-utils and
similarity-tester.

With the default settings, four fragments of the checklist for porting
activities to Python 3 have similarity.  The text in these sections
was copied from work by myself and others on the Python 3 Porting
Guide and on GitHub issue progress checklists.  So it is not direct
plagiarism, but incomplete quotation.

I did foresee plagiarism.  We said in
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC#want-to-work-with-us-
"proposals for Sugar Labs; must be your own work, and not the work of
others, except where the work of others is minimal, duly credited and
quoted," and we gave the option of not posting to the mailing list.

However, I don't see how both of you could have avoided using our
Python 3 Porting Guide, and it was obvious as part of the idea.

So I've decided this isn't enough of a reason to ignore your proposals.

Other organisations do not encourage proposals to be published.  Sugar
Labs has welcomed publishing before the deadline so that community
members can contribute reviews.  We didn't get many reviews from
non-mentors this year, so I'm inclined to skip publishing next year.

(There was one other proposal for the same project idea, but it was a
single paragraph personal introduction.)

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 01:37:05AM +0530, Saumya Mishra wrote:
> Hello Jui,
>     Thanks for reviewing the proposal. I really liked your idea of putting
> right fit table in proposal. So I also do same in my proposal, hope you are
> fine with it. But on rest others points I was working from starting. Hope it
> cleared your doubts. 
> Thanks
> 
> On Wed 1 Apr, 2020, 12:25 AM Jui Pradhan, <[1]juipradhan2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Saumya,
>                       Just went through your final proposal (opened the doc
>     link). Saw you added my bulleted method of porting activities to Python 3 ;
>     observing closely related codebase of other activities, the right fit table
>     and more points I mentioned in my draft proposal. I feel delighted to know
>     that I have inspired you greatly! :) 
>     But I just hope having the same points in our proposal, in no way affects
>     the proposal reviewing by mentors.
> 
>     Regards,
>     Jui Pradhan
> 
>     On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 1:59 AM Saumya Mishra <[2]2017230 at iiitdmj.ac.in>
>     wrote:
> 
>         I have shared my draft proposal of GSoc for Port Sugar and core
>         activities to Python 3 . Kindly do review and suggestions are welcomed.
>         Link-[3]https://docs.google.com/document/d/
>         1xKhvhCcxdPgQn8VglpcNWlPF6tk8xpw9zdNu1RsYpoA/edit?usp=sharing
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:juipradhan2k at gmail.com
> [2] mailto:2017230 at iiitdmj.ac.in
> [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xKhvhCcxdPgQn8VglpcNWlPF6tk8xpw9zdNu1RsYpoA/edit?usp=sharing
> [4] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [5] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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