From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:32:48 -0800 Message-ID: <7vppzw6z7z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <87ehgd1qq2.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> <20130218174239.GB22832@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vip5p9rtm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v7gm492ty.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthieu Moy , Jeff King , Thomas Rast , git@vger.kernel.org, Shawn Pearce , Jakub Narebski , Christian Couder , Pat Thoyts , Paul Mackerras , Carlos =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= Nieto , Thomas Gummerer , David Barr , Jens Lehmann , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 19 17:33:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7q84-0000Jm-P5 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:33:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758589Ab3BSQcw (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:32:52 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:48038 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758549Ab3BSQcv (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:32:51 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2EBB85F; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:32:51 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=8y36psbyHT8A+ZwxlF87K/lKcig=; b=byDOP7 oMY3ajfoulHr9jn305zunkK2nvcF8IhLwrsUuw4eBfNuqG+YqeeRHjwl7M++ne69 yRD6JxG2B4JDyGsKYHeAw2ucaWAo0bffPzc4faKdvPK+hoKNCyPsTfgqgM8Bvcdg e7QqFI+rkP0ddK3/zsqukgs+D1l2noBk0JHRw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=d7w5vCQDahlgycCwBqX0o5Bud//kdxWY zTph/9urCi7iLSLg8NuQYhY+YXFJLA99KiCJMUyGMakYCApWjFYUIYwVTUbfBSCt JBL+cM31Pvgja6hGojYuEQAMh7ulGefsspUAHOMfw9Kl4D1qksRlnBA1nEmT+8u7 VY13p3fHZsQ= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD7BB85E; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:32:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 53B2CB85A; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:32:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:52:17 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 00634C26-7AB2-11E2-988E-21622E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: >> I was conflating between people who add "suggested project" and who >> act as mentors. I do not think mentors are primarily responsible >> for bad suggested projects. > > Why do mentors pick badly sketched-out projects to mentor? They're > free to pick anything they want/ propose what they want. I've had an impression that these Wiki entries were written by people with names of mentors (who are different from the proposers) already assigned to them, and if an unfortunate student picked an unrealistic one, these mentor candidates were too nice to push back and decline, saying "it is unrealistic", leaving the student and proposal without any mentor.