What about something a bit more ambitious, like all GSoC & Outreachy projects have their code merged and deployed by the end of September? This implies PASS in mid-term and final evaluations, and it is the real evaluation (in the past we got plenty of projects PASS that then didn't end up in anything concrete. Turns out some mentors are softer than others.

@Qgil, I was actually aiming to have all projects have their code merged and deployed by end of August itself. That is what I meant by:

• Project code merged or on the verge on merging

I don't believe more than two/three students will actually stick around once GSoC ends. If code being merged before final evaluations is a hard requirement, we might see some improvement in how the projects wrap-up. What do you think? Too ambitious?

I would say: you pursue this goal by August 28, but let's have the ECT team goal by the end of September. Code review might be delayed ecause of factors external to the students i.e. busy mentors / maintainers. Also note that in quarterly reviews, goals are either green or red. It would be silly to get a red just because the of the time pressure we put on ourselves.

@Qgil, understood.

@NiharikaKohli, I think we should not commit to "Successful mid-term and end-term evaluations for all GSoC and Outreachy projects", because it is totally out of our control. Almost all rounds have interns not completing their projects for whatever reason that us org admins or the mentors cannot prevent.

I'd rather focus on the interns that pass the evaluation, assuring that either the mentors consider that a project passes and then they push it through review and deployment, or they don't pass the intern after a fair evaluation. The definition of "Successful mid-term and end-term evaluations" should be that all projects receive a fair evaluation, not that all pass.

Proposal:

Goal: All completed GSoC and Outreachy projects have code merged and deployed by September

Measurement of success

• All the GSoC and Outreachy interns that pass the program in August have their code reviewed and deployed by the end of September.

@Qgil, done. By successful evaluation I did mean that the evaluations go through, irrespective of pass or fail. Guess I worded that incorrectly.

GSoC's mid-term evaluation period goes from Friday, 26 June to Friday, 3 July. Should we repeat the exercise we did for bonding period review, having specific tasks for all projects including the checklist with Criteria for successful mid-term evaluations? I think so...

We need to start soon, in order to assure that proper evaluations are taking place, and giving some margin to students closer to failing than to passing. Mentors also need to understand that this is an important evaluation, and if a student hasn't been following properly until now, experience tells that it is probably better to be frank and not pass them.

As org admins, Niharika and me should also put special attention to these reviews, in the context of this goal. Patterns to avoid (and that we have seen in the past) include not only students slacking but being passed by benevolent mentors, also students caught by surprise for not being passed, since they had not received any prior feedback from their mentors in that direction (usually because there is no ongoing communication, etc). Weekly reports and the mid-term evaluation checklist should be useful to act with fairness in all cases.

I have added N/A to two projects that didn't plan to deploy to production in the first place, linking to their extension pages.

After asking at T89107#1640455, I think that project is also completed within the framework of GSoC, and we can tag it as N/A in the table above.

IRC wrap-up and blog post is all what is left here. Two weeks to go. :)

Congratulations! You made it, the best GSoC/Outreachy round in terms of project performance. We had never achieved having all projects merged in production or in Labs, fully functional. Post-interns and mentors, you will give a hard time to the participants in future rounds. :)

I think this calls for a meme