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| annma | SRabbelier: hi, I am from KDE and we did not | 08:53 |
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| annma | and our tasks are not in | 08:53 |
| annma | any idea what's going on? | 08:53 |
| SRabbelier | annma: what do you mean? | 08:53 |
| annma | (I just woke up) | 08:53 |
| annma | I mean that we did not do the bulk upload apparently | 08:53 |
| SRabbelier | I didn't delete any tasks, they decided against doing that :P | 08:54 |
| annma | a guy named sandroandrade should have done it | 08:54 |
| SRabbelier | yes, but he decided against it because he couldn't delete them I think | 08:55 |
| SRabbelier | (that should be available today) | 08:56 |
| annma | well we're week-end | 08:56 |
| annma | some mentors are not signed in | 08:57 |
| annma | and it starts on Monday | 08:57 |
| annma | I am full of good will but totally lost in all this | 08:57 |
| annma | OK we get a line of conduct | 09:04 |
| SRabbelier | annma: we'll try to let you assign mentors to tasks after Monday | 09:06 |
| annma | first let's try to load the tasks | 09:08 |
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| valorie | hi, we were told earlier that on a bulk upload, mentor's alias should be used in the CSV file | 09:13 |
| valorie | I just want to be sure that this is the NAME, not the USERNAME, from our list of mentors | 09:14 |
| valorie | before I correct anything | 09:14 |
| valorie | SRabbelier: ? | 09:14 |
| SRabbelier | valorie: it should be the username | 09:38 |
| valorie | username, thanks for clarifying | 09:38 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: the few tasks uploaded yesterday had NAME, not USERNAME, and that worked | 09:44 |
| Mamarok | also the drop-down list in melange shows NAME, not USERNAME | 09:44 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: I can guarantee you that we're not doing lookups by name, since those aren't unique :) | 09:45 |
| SRabbelier | you're right in that we're displaying name on the drop-down, since that's easier on the eyes :P | 09:45 |
| Mamarok | OK, I have all Mentors set to NAME in my CSV, will change that | 09:46 |
| SRabbelier | http://code.google.com/p/soc/source/browse/app/soc/modules/gci/tasks/bulk_create.py#223 | 09:46 |
| tpb | <http://ln-s.net/9LkP> (at code.google.com) | 09:46 |
| Mamarok | but it worked yesterday for a few | 09:46 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: because their name happened to be the same as their link_id I suspect | 09:46 |
| Mamarok | OK | 09:47 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: see also the instructions on the bulk upload page "Link ID's of mentors for this task, comma separated." | 09:47 |
| SRabbelier | link_id == username | 09:47 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: I would love to, but I am just a mentor who gives a hand to the admins | 09:48 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: ah :) | 09:48 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: well they're no secret: http://code.google.com/p/soc/source/browse/app/soc/templates/v2/modules/gci/bulk_create/base.html | 09:49 |
| tpb | <http://ln-s.net/9LkU> (at code.google.com) | 09:49 |
| Mamarok | another question: comma separated mentor IDs, do I also have to escape the commas there? | 09:50 |
| Mamarok | I did by default as I wasn't sure | 09:50 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: no need as long as you quote the field | 09:51 |
| Mamarok | OK, that is what I did actually :) | 09:52 |
| Mamarok | as I had to for the descriptions anyway | 09:52 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: task title, some description <b>with markup</b>, 150, "mentor_a, mentor_b", Easy, "Documentation, Outreach", "Awesome, Wiki" | 09:53 |
| valorie | 150? | 09:54 |
| Mamarok | yep, my format is OK, I just have to change the mentor IDs now, shouldn't take long | 09:54 |
| Mamarok | valorie: 150 hours | 09:54 |
| Mamarok | that is already correct in the CSV | 09:54 |
| valorie | ok, we ran into this before, people putting hours instead of days, and vice-versa | 09:55 |
| SRabbelier | valorie: it's in hours | 09:55 |
| valorie | cool | 09:55 |
| SRabbelier | "Time to complete in hours, as integer." | 09:55 |
| Mamarok | valorie: no worries, it's all OK, I just have to change the Mentors | 09:55 |
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| valorie | argh, how do I upload this CSV file? | 11:06 |
| valorie | I know how one usually does it -- surely it isn't copy/paste into the bulk upload area? | 11:06 |
| Mamarok | isn't there a field where you can select the file on your computer? | 11:08 |
| valorie | no | 11:08 |
| Mamarok | that is most particular | 11:08 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: can you help, please? | 11:08 |
| valorie | gah! | 11:08 |
| SRabbelier | NEVAH | 11:08 |
| valorie | how do I upload this file? | 11:09 |
| SRabbelier | yes it's copy paste :P | 11:09 |
| SRabbelier | AppEngine doesn't like uploading files | 11:09 |
| valorie | OMG | 11:09 |
| Mamarok | valorie: dolphin to the rescue | 11:09 |
| valorie | I"m there in dolphin, but when I click on it, it wants it to open in office | 11:09 |
| Mamarok | sorry, Kate I meant | 11:10 |
| valorie | kate, I can do | 11:10 |
| Mamarok | right click, open with kate | 11:10 |
| Mamarok | then Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V in the upload area | 11:10 |
| valorie | sorry for freaking out on you, SRabbelier | 11:11 |
| valorie | done | 11:11 |
| annma | OK fingers crossed!!! | 11:11 |
| SRabbelier | valorie: lol, np :P | 11:11 |
| annma | SRabbelier: is the upload slow? | 11:14 |
| Mamarok | it went from 32 tasks to 46 and then nothing | 11:14 |
| annma | so 14 in | 11:15 |
| SRabbelier | checking logs | 11:15 |
| SRabbelier | task is still running | 11:16 |
| annma | OK let's see | 11:16 |
| SRabbelier | I'm seeing some errors though | 11:18 |
| annma | shouldn't the href=" doubled quoted? | 11:19 |
| SRabbelier | what href? | 11:19 |
| annma | in the task description | 11:19 |
| annma | task 15 | 11:20 |
| annma | the one it's stuck to | 11:20 |
| annma | there's a url in the description | 11:20 |
| annma | tell us what errors you see please SRabbelier | 11:20 |
| Mamarok | seriously? I hope not, else we will have another go at corrections | 11:20 |
| annma | just guessing | 11:20 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: all quotes should be escaped by double quotes | 11:21 |
| annma | let's hear what the errors are | 11:21 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: so if you have a href="foo" it should be a href=""foo"" | 11:21 |
| annma | SRabbelier: so the URL should be doubled escaped? | 11:21 |
| annma | ah yes | 11:21 |
| SRabbelier | [u'The task in row 1 contains the following errors.\n No valid time to completion found, given was: Time to complete.\nMentors is not a mentor.\nNo valid task difficulty found, given Difficulty.\nType is not a valid task type.'] | 11:21 |
| annma | I just guessed so | 11:21 |
| SRabbelier | that one's for valorie | 11:21 |
| SRabbelier | valorie: looks like you have a header row that shouldn't be there | 11:21 |
| annma | SRabbelier: valorie is in bed, it's 3am for her | 11:22 |
| annma | I'll take the relay | 11:22 |
| SRabbelier | ah, np :) | 11:22 |
| SRabbelier | and for scottmc I'm seeing "[u'The task in row 1 contains the following errors.\n No valid time to completion found, given was: .\n is not a mentor.\nNo valid task difficulty found, given .\n is not a valid task type.', u'The task in row 2 contains the following errors.\n No... | 11:22 |
| SRabbelier | that's probably that double quote going wrong? | 11:23 |
| annma | probably | 11:23 |
| Mamarok | that shouldn't be a biggie to correct, Find+Replace to the rescue | 11:25 |
| annma | it's not that, the Chokoq one has a href and got through | 11:27 |
| annma | Mamarok: the 3 in our spreadsheet | 11:27 |
| annma | the tasks are not uploaded after the ones existing | 11:32 |
| annma | there's no way to match the spreadsheet with the uploaded tasks | 11:32 |
| annma | OK I found a missing " | 11:40 |
| SRabbelier | annma: I think you only have to escape the quotes if you are quoting the entire string (because it contains commas) | 11:51 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: I quoted the complete Description, so I guessed I would not have to quote what was inside | 11:54 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: only if the bit inside the description contains " | 11:54 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: those'd have to be escaped to "" | 11:54 |
| Mamarok | additionally to the string quote outside, yes, I didn't think of that | 11:55 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: actually, no need to do this because if you export from a spreadsheet to CSV it adds the double qoutes automatically | 12:06 |
| Mamarok | so that can't be the problem | 12:06 |
| Mamarok | annma: ^ | 12:06 |
| SRabbelier | ah, ok | 12:06 |
| SRabbelier | weird | 12:06 |
| Mamarok | I now have triple quotes showing up, that might be the problem | 12:07 |
| Mamarok | since the export adds those it added one too many | 12:07 |
| Mamarok | it is the problem, but simply because I already did qoute strings | 12:08 |
| SRabbelier | ok :D | 12:13 |
| annma | the load seems to be stopped at 90 | 12:39 |
| annma | or is it not finished yet? | 12:39 |
| annma | ah no 184!!! | 12:43 |
| annma | wooow we're nearly there | 12:43 |
| SRabbelier | annma: exponential backoff is kicking in :P | 12:48 |
| SRabbelier | annma: the task is written to throw an exception to stop apparently | 12:48 |
| SRabbelier | which means that appengine will retry it | 12:49 |
| SRabbelier | (since there's more to do) | 12:49 |
| SRabbelier | but it'll take twice as long to try again each time | 12:49 |
| SRabbelier | so I'd recommend trying smaller batches next time :P | 12:49 |
| annma | smaller batches means copying to another spreadsheet | 12:49 |
| annma | to generate csv | 12:50 |
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| annma | how are other orgs doing this? maybe a HowTo would be really helpful | 12:50 |
| annma | like GNOME | 12:50 |
| SRabbelier | annma: http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=1346 | 12:50 |
| tpb | <http://ln-s.net/9Llv> (at code.google.com) | 12:50 |
| Mamarok | everything seems to have been imported twice now | 12:51 |
| SRabbelier | oh that's bad | 12:51 |
| annma | Mamarok: really? | 12:51 |
| annma | where do you see that? | 12:51 |
| Mamarok | I have 400 entries showing in melange, but we have about 266 tasks | 12:51 |
| Mamarok | annma: set the page count to 500, refresh and wait | 12:51 |
| c_schmitz | now if there was a way to delete tasks | 12:52 |
| c_schmitz | :p | 12:52 |
| Mamarok | oh well, at least they are in | 12:52 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: link? | 12:52 |
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| SRabbelier | oh, nvm | 12:52 |
| SRabbelier | what org? | 12:53 |
| Mamarok | actually, we will need to check a lot of things, as 400 is not the double of 266 | 12:53 |
| annma | KDE | 12:53 |
| annma | Mamarok: what I am trying to do is remove from spreadsheet imported tasks | 12:53 |
| annma | to see which ones were not imported | 12:54 |
| Mamarok | some are deliberate duplicates | 12:54 |
| SRabbelier | 0.O | 12:54 |
| SRabbelier | oh dear | 12:54 |
| Mamarok | annma: please do this in a copy of the spreadsheet, | 12:54 |
| Mamarok | don't delete on the original one | 12:54 |
| annma | too late | 12:55 |
| annma | I have a copy though but that was of early morning | 12:55 |
| annma | I only see 200 tasks | 12:55 |
| Mamarok | no problem, I will restore a revision then | 12:55 |
| annma | 4 pages | 12:55 |
| Mamarok | there were 266 yesterday | 12:56 |
| annma | I mean on Melange | 12:56 |
| Mamarok | I see 400 | 12:56 |
| annma | 200 here | 12:56 |
| Mamarok | annma: change the tasks to show to 500 at the bottom, then refresh | 12:56 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: what org? | 12:56 |
| SRabbelier | oh | 12:56 |
| SRabbelier | kde | 12:56 |
| SRabbelier | my bad | 12:57 |
| SRabbelier | there are only 215 tasks for KDE | 12:57 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: changing to 500 at the bottom and refreshing is probably triggering some UI bug | 12:58 |
| Mamarok | oh, then it is correct, it tells me show 400 of 400 | 12:58 |
| Mamarok | right then it is OK *puh* | 12:58 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: most curious, can you create an issue describing how to repro? | 12:58 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: go to the KDE tasks, change the view at the bottom to show 500 and refresh | 12:59 |
| SRabbelier | right, please create a http://tinyurl.com/new-issue | 12:59 |
| tpb | Title: Google Project Hosting (at tinyurl.com) | 12:59 |
| Mamarok | oh, sorry, I misread that :) | 13:00 |
| SRabbelier | np :) | 13:01 |
| c_schmitz | Mamarok: see private chat | 13:02 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: you should be able to just set it to 500 without refreshing to see all tasks | 13:09 |
| Mamarok | SRabbelier: submitted the issue 1347 | 13:10 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: already assigned it :) | 13:10 |
| Mamarok | thanks :) | 13:10 |
| SRabbelier | I can't repro btw | 13:11 |
| Mamarok | when I set the page view to 50, it tells me "View 1 - 50 of 400 | 13:12 |
| Mamarok | and apparently it shows the same entries on every other page | 13:13 |
| SRabbelier | 0.O | 13:13 |
| Mamarok | when I go through the 8 pages | 13:13 |
| Mamarok | very weird | 13:13 |
| SRabbelier | Mamarok: you're just in KDE? | 13:14 |
| Mamarok | anyway, I need some food now | 13:14 |
| Mamarok | yes, only KDE | 13:14 |
| annma | (isn't that enough?) | 13:14 |
| SRabbelier | lol | 13:15 |
| SRabbelier | well I can imagine a bug that's tied to being in multiple orgs :P | 13:15 |
| annma | ;) | 13:15 |
| annma | I see 227 tasks | 13:19 |
| annma | which sounds quite good, a few got rejected | 13:21 |
| c_schmitz | SRabbelier: how do we get our logo in the 'Participating orgs' banner? | 13:28 |
| SRabbelier | c_schmitz: just set it in your org profile | 13:29 |
| c_schmitz | how would I do that? I can't edit it | 13:29 |
| SRabbelier | c_schmitz: what org are you with again? | 13:30 |
| c_schmitz | LimeSurvey | 13:30 |
| c_schmitz | (at least I don't see a link or any way to edit it) | 13:30 |
| SRabbelier | http://www.google-melange.com/gci/profile/organization/google/gci2011/limesurvey | 13:30 |
| tpb | Title: Google Accounts (at www.google-melange.com) | 13:30 |
| c_schmitz | thanks | 13:31 |
| SRabbelier | np | 13:31 |
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| annma | SRabbelier: I sent 1 task for load and it did not get through (for KDE) but I have more tasks than before this | 14:34 |
| SRabbelier | annma: what do you mean with "it did not get through"? | 14:34 |
| annma | it's not loaded | 14:34 |
| SRabbelier | annma: and I suspect the reason you have more tasks it that someone else created a task | 14:34 |
| SRabbelier | annma: what is not loaded? | 14:35 |
| annma | no | 14:35 |
| SRabbelier | no what? | 14:35 |
| annma | SRabbelier: we sent the whole spreadsheet but some tasks did not get loaded | 14:35 |
| annma | so now I sent one that was previously refused | 14:35 |
| annma | to test | 14:35 |
| SRabbelier | annma: ok | 14:36 |
| annma | so I am wondering what's happening | 14:36 |
| annma | that's what I am asking you | 14:37 |
| SRabbelier | not sure :D | 14:41 |
| SRabbelier | just deployed a new release | 14:41 |
| SRabbelier | that fixes the exponential backoff | 14:41 |
| SRabbelier | so now tasks import should be a lot faster even for large batches | 14:41 |
| SRabbelier | c_schmitz: your logo is broken... http://www.limesurey.org/apple-touch-icon.png | 14:41 |
| SRabbelier | c_schmitz: fixed it for ya :P | 14:42 |
| SRabbelier | c_schmitz: sadly will stay in the cache for half an hour | 14:42 |
| c_schmitz | thanks ;) | 14:42 |
| c_schmitz | sorry, it is hard to write my own project name correctly | 14:42 |
| c_schmitz | :p | 14:42 |
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| pjcj | Is it still the case that tasks can't be modified after uploading? | 15:00 |
| pjcj | if so, can they be deleted? | 15:00 |
| SRabbelier | pjcj: they've been modifyable from teh start | 15:03 |
| pjcj | oh - Carol's mail from 16th Nov says explicitly that they are not | 15:04 |
| pjcj | "NB: Tasks *cannot* be modified after they are published!" | 15:04 |
| pjcj | ah - that's after 21st? | 15:04 |
| pjcj | OK - thanks, it's clear now | 15:06 |
| SRabbelier | pjcj: np | 15:27 |
| annma | I have duplicated tasks from my last load | 15:29 |
| annma | :( | 15:29 |
| annma | also I can't find why some tasks do not import frm spreasheet to melange | 15:29 |
| annma | SRabbelier: I get duplicated tasks when I load some small batches! | 15:47 |
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| SRabbelier | annma: :( | 16:05 |
| annma | will I be able to delete them? | 16:05 |
| annma | why is so? I fear importing the rest | 16:06 |
| annma | some are triple even | 16:06 |
| SRabbelier | annma: when you go to the 'edit' pages for the duplicates | 16:06 |
| SRabbelier | annma: is the url different? | 16:06 |
| annma | yes | 16:07 |
| annma | the number is not the same | 16:07 |
| SRabbelier | annma: you're sure you're the only one uploading and that you hit 'submit' only once? | 16:10 |
| annma | well yes | 16:10 |
| SRabbelier | annma: would you mind pastebin-ing the tasks you tried that duplicated? | 16:11 |
| annma | although I did not refresh the webpage | 16:11 |
| annma | so maybe that's why | 16:11 |
| annma | the tasks URLs? | 16:12 |
| SRabbelier | annma: what page didn't you refresh? | 16:13 |
| SRabbelier | annma: can you pastebin the text you put in the input field when it duplicated tasks? | 16:14 |
| annma | the text is gone, it was csv I checked it, it was small as it was only a few tasks | 16:14 |
| annma | I deleted it :( | 16:15 |
| SRabbelier | nothing much I can do then | 16:15 |
| SRabbelier | you'll be able to delete tasks later today | 16:15 |
| annma | OK that's excellent | 16:16 |
| annma | thanks for your support and availability SRabbelier | 16:17 |
| SRabbelier | np | 16:17 |
| SRabbelier | thank you for working with us ^__^ | 16:17 |
| annma | :) | 16:17 |
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| SRabbelier | task deletion is now possible | 17:02 |
| annma | :) | 17:15 |
| c_schmitz | SRabbelier: don't see anything in the interface for deletion | 17:34 |
| annma | me neither | 17:35 |
| SRabbelier | read the changelog | 17:35 |
| SRabbelier | https://plus.google.com/113839503453545250617/posts/UvxTB2Vwvun | 17:40 |
| tpb | <http://ln-s.net/9LpO> (at plus.google.com) | 17:40 |
| SRabbelier | annma, c_schmitz: ^ | 17:40 |
| annma | ah you rock SRabbelier | 17:42 |
| annma | many many thanks | 17:43 |
| annma | you're a savior | 17:43 |
| annma | all my tasks are in and I can remove dupes | 17:43 |
| SRabbelier | annma: no problem ^__^ | 17:43 |
| SRabbelier | annma: glad to hear that | 17:43 |
| annma | :) KDE is all set for Code-In! | 17:43 |
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| annma | hoorah for the task deletion | 19:28 |
| annma | we might be reaching 300 tasks for KDE | 19:41 |
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| SRabbelier | wow, nice | 19:54 |
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| pjcj | tasks can't be edited once published, but can they be deleted? | 20:25 |
| SRabbelier | pjcj: yes | 20:30 |
| SRabbelier | as long as they aren't claimed | 20:30 |
| pjcj | thanks | 20:30 |
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| asmeurer__ | is anyone around who can answer some questions about code in? | 21:26 |
| asmeurer__ | I'm trying to get our tasks together | 21:26 |
| asmeurer__ | well, anyway, can someone please ping me when they can | 22:09 |
| ThomasWaldmann | asmeurer__: if you ask specific questions, you might get answers more quickly | 22:12 |
| asmeurer__ | ok, I'll ask then: | 22:12 |
| asmeurer__ | Can we add mentors/admins to the system after Monday? | 22:12 |
| asmeurer__ | If so, can we modify who can mentor a task after Monday? | 22:13 |
| asmeurer__ | What is this "Unknown" difficulty? | 22:13 |
| * ThomasWaldmann has no idea about adding mentors/admins | 22:14 | |
| ThomasWaldmann | i suspect that unknown difficulty can be changed later maybe | 22:14 |
| asmeurer__ | Oh, and can I verify that we can indeed extend the time limit if we want? | 22:14 |
| ThomasWaldmann | last year it worked | 22:15 |
| asmeurer__ | ok good | 22:15 |
| asmeurer__ | is it reasonable to give 1 day (24 hours) per difficulty level? | 22:15 |
| asmeurer__ | i.e., 24 hours for easy, 48 for medium, 72 for hard | 22:15 |
| ThomasWaldmann | at moinmoin, we internally use a formula like total_hours = work_hours * 12 | 22:16 |
| asmeurer__ | and then extend if necessary (i.e., the student demonstrates that he/she is actually working and not just sitting on the task) | 22:16 |
| asmeurer__ | but how did you compute work_hours? | 22:16 |
| ThomasWaldmann | so if we suspect a task is 5 hours of work, we would set 60 hours total | 22:16 |
| asmeurer__ | ah, so you don't think I've given enough then? | 22:17 |
| ThomasWaldmann | and one should not make it too short. it might happen that a student is in a different TZ and that he can't work on it on some day. | 22:17 |
| asmeurer__ | Maybe I'll just add some text to the effect of: | 22:17 |
| asmeurer__ | "Note that the time limit exists so that people who claim a task and do no work cannot prevent others from doing the task. If you need more time, and you have demonstrated that you are indeed working on the task, then we will gladly extend the time limit for you." | 22:18 |
| asmeurer__ | but now I'm thinking that in addition, I should double what I currently have | 22:19 |
| ThomasWaldmann | just don't make it too short. you do not need to explain additional stuff then, there are rules/guidelines from google students can read about it. | 22:19 |
| asmeurer__ | ok | 22:20 |
| ThomasWaldmann | e.g. if you would set 24h, i guess that would be a pain | 22:20 |
| asmeurer__ | how does 2, 4, 6 days sound for easy, medium, hard, respectively? | 22:20 |
| ThomasWaldmann | if your easy task is also quick, it might work | 22:20 |
| asmeurer__ | I personally don't mind giving the students as much time as they want, so long as they are working | 22:21 |
| ThomasWaldmann | i am no big fan of these "easy, medium, hard" levels, they are basically wrong IMHO | 22:21 |
| asmeurer__ | what would you do? | 22:21 |
| ThomasWaldmann | try your best to estimate how many hours a young student who is new to your project will need | 22:22 |
| ThomasWaldmann | and then do not assume he/she can work all day on it. sleep. school. other duties. tz differences. | 22:23 |
| asmeurer__ | well, I've got 164 tasks, and I don't really feel like going through each one and trying to estimate something that I have no idea how to estimate in the first place | 22:24 |
| asmeurer__ | so I'm just going with this formula based on the difficulty | 22:24 |
| asmeurer__ | It would have been nice if we were told about this requirement from the beginning | 22:24 |
| ThomasWaldmann | well, it is a lot of work, noone said it's easy | 22:25 |
| * asmeurer__ doesn't see a problem with doing it this way, and then extending it if the student needs more time | 22:25 | |
| ThomasWaldmann | of course you can't really estimate how long a student who you do not yet know will really take for it | 22:25 |
| gevaerts | asmeurer__: this is one of those things that GCI admins and mentors like arguing about. You're allowed to have your own way of doing things, as long as you stay within the framework as set up by the google people :) | 22:26 |
| ThomasWaldmann | but just try some as-good-as-it-gets estimate | 22:26 |
| asmeurer__ | oh, one more question (in case a Melange guy comes by later and wants to answer all my questions): | 22:27 |
| asmeurer__ | is there a way to add newlines to the description field? | 22:28 |
| asmeurer__ | ah, never mind, I see | 22:28 |
| asmeurer__ | I just have to do it in html | 22:28 |
| asmeurer__ | Oh, and another question: when are we going to be able to see what our project page looks like? | 22:36 |
| asmeurer__ | I don't even know how to go back and edit the description | 22:36 |
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| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/profile/organization/google/gci2011/your_org_link_id_here | 23:29 |
| asmeurer__ | thanks | 23:30 |
| asmeurer__ | could I perhaps get some love on my other questions? | 23:30 |
| asmeurer__ | I'll repeat them if you want | 23:30 |
| valorie | asmeurer__: on your times, have the mentors look them over | 23:34 |
| valorie | don't try to do everything yourself | 23:34 |
| valorie | you'll die, and they'll just find a lil burnt out cinder on the floor | 23:35 |
| asmeurer__ | well, if we had known about it from the start, this would have happened | 23:35 |
| valorie | the rules changed this year | 23:35 |
| asmeurer__ | right now, I am the main one who has time to finish this up | 23:35 |
| valorie | we're all adjusting | 23:35 |
| valorie | and yes, it sucks that we have so little time | 23:35 |
| asmeurer__ | I mean it was not even mentioned in http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIAdminMentorInformation | 23:36 |
| tpb | <http://ln-s.net/9Ltn> (at code.google.com) | 23:36 |
| asmeurer__ | ok, so that was actually my least important question | 23:36 |
| asmeurer__ | repeating from above: | 23:36 |
| asmeurer__ | can we add mentors/admins to the system after monday? | 23:36 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: there was time to complete last year as well | 23:37 |
| SRabbelier | not sure why it wasn't in the docs | 23:37 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: not currently, but there's already an issue asking for that | 23:37 |
| asmeurer__ | well, that will be a problem if the answer is no | 23:37 |
| asmeurer__ | only four mentors (including me) have signed up so far | 23:37 |
| SRabbelier | we'll try to have it implemented before monday | 23:37 |
| asmeurer__ | out of at least nine | 23:38 |
| asmeurer__ | ok, that would be great | 23:38 |
| asmeurer__ | second question: can we modify which mentors are assigned to tasks after monday? | 23:38 |
| asmeurer__ | otherwise, it will just be us four | 23:38 |
| asmeurer__ | well, I have to go now, but if you could leave the answer here, that would be great | 23:44 |
| asmeurer__ | and one other question: what is "unknown" difficulty? | 23:44 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: oh wqait | 23:54 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: I thought that was your original question | 23:54 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: yes you can keep adding mentors forever | 23:54 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: there's no limit on that at all | 23:54 |
| SRabbelier | asmeurer__: it's just that you can't edit tasks after monday, which currently includes editing mentors | 23:55 |
| SRabbelier | (if you had prefixed your messages with "SRabbelier" I would have seen your question and have responded right away :P) | 23:55 |
| SRabbelier | and the Unknown difficulty is caused by someone ending up with a task with no difficulty somehow | 23:56 |
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