[Sugar-devel] Question about Criteria of GSoC'21 Ideas

[Aditya Pratap Singh]

So, the idea shouldn't be requiring rocket-science level knowledge and
should lay down concrete guidelines on what is to be implemented?

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, 12:08 pm James Cameron, <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Sure.  I wrote it, as you can see from "git blame" on the previous
> years' iterations of the file.
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blame/master/Ideas-2019.md#L775
>
> At Sugar Labs we have a long history with Google Summer of Code, and
> there are some anti-patterns in ideas that can lead to the idea
> failing to proceed, the project failing to deliver, or the software not
> being deployed.
>
> 1.  an idea for which we do not have the skills; we can't explain to a
> student how to do it, and we can't easily help the student when they
> are blocked, which can leave the student feeling very uncertain and
> not finishing their work on time,
>
> 2.  an idea that has not been fully developed as an idea; a sort of
> speculative idea; we then don't have the developers willing to test
> the design and implementation by the student, and so the project is
> completed without net benefit to Sugar Labs,
>
> By the way, "can promise" does not mean "will promise"; it is about
> capacity of mentors.
>
> Does that help explain my statement?
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:51:46AM +0530, Aditya Pratap Singh wrote:
> > Can someone explain what this statement means?
> >
> >     Do we have a developer now who would be willing and able to do it if
> a
> >     student was not available, and who can promise to do it if a student
> is not
> >     selected; these are shown as a coding mentor,
> >
> > [1]Source
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2021.md#criteria-for-ideas
>
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> James Cameron
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