Re: [boost] [GSoC] Proposal reviewing

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC] Proposal reviewing
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-12 09:02:33

On 2011-04-12 08:54, Andrew Sutton wrote:
>> I agree. Also, I find the "scoring with '1' really is '-5'" a little
>> confusing, and thus right now I'm treating score>=1 as below threshold.
> Do you mean<= 1?

Doh, yes of course !

> I think 0 should mean unrated.

OK. Unrated implies no-one is interested in it, right ? So score >=2 is 
a filter for proposals that induce "positive interest".

>
>>> I'm not either :) It changes from year to year...
>> Google really manages to keep the GSoC UI a mess, doesn't it.
> They're trying to keep us on our toes. I would prefer we had something
> like EasyChair, but apparently they felt like they needed to reinvent
> reviewing. Hopefully it will get better.

Aren't we wishing for that each year ? So far it hasn't got better, just 
differently bad. (I'd really prefer to focus on the proposals rather 
than the process. But hey, look where we are having this conversation ! 
;-) )

     Stefan

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