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

[James Cameron]

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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