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From: Nisala Mendis <nisala12@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:16:48 +0530
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Subject: Re: Re-evaluation of GSoC Final Evaluation Result ( Apache Htrace
 Kudu Backend )
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Hi Colin,

I understand it is your responsibility evaluate summer project as well I
strongly believe the community need to know truthful is your evaluation
facts you put into that Google evaluation.
I also believe putting untruthful evaluation facts even far worse than
exposing someone's personal emails.

So I hand over to Kudu and HTrace communities to evaluate the stuff that I
wrote whether those are agree with facts you put into that my evaluation. I
believe those who in this list the have better understanding
of the technology can evaluate the facts of your evaluation against the
code and the JIRA we had those all discussions. I even put this thing,
knowing Apache Kudu and Apache Htrace
very much biased Cloudera backed communities does not meet Apache open
source standards by any means.

Even Google or Apache Organization GSoC Admins re-evaluate my evaluation or
not, I believe this will be a good incident Google or participating
Organization like Apache to evaluate their own mentors as well
and also mentors to be honest to GSoC program as well being honest when you
are filling that evaluation, rather you put false facts to prove why you
have failed the student. If the student does not meet standards required by
the program, It s your responsibility to fail the student but not by this
kind of untruthful facts. I am sorry to point your personal emails, but I
believe community need to know the truth which I believe I did mistake for
all workI did not posted publicly in this mailing list, otherwise you would
have never put untruthful facts as my evaluation.

I also suggest before you are going to fail a student, be honest to
yourself whether you have spent at least a hour per week with the student
meeting other Google and Apache mentoring standards, I truly believe mentor
is not some one who just ask for status. I also suggest as person who works
for Cloudera full time could do that kind of effort without putting some
serious commitment.

Hopefully this will shed some light on future GSoC students as well.

Regards
Nisala

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Colin McCabe <cmccabe@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Nisala,
>
> I'm truly sorry that our summer of code project didn't get completed.
> You showed a lot of potential in the beginning, but unfortunately the
> time commitment was just not there.  When students become unresponsive
> for weeks at a time, it's very difficult for mentors.
>
> I think that if you focus, you can improve and do better in the future.
> If you had told me that you were taking classes this summer, I might not
> have suggested doing the project.  I also said that I will continue to
> review any patches from you, and I stand by that.
>
> I don't think this really has any relevance to dev@htrace or dev@kudu.
> This is really about evaluating the summer project, and that's my
> responsibility.  I suggest taking the discussion off those lists.  Also,
> I really suggest not reposting personal emails people send to you to
> public mailing lists in the future, unless you ask the sender
> beforehand.
>
> Colin
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, at 00:47, Nisala Mendis wrote:
> > Hi Google Support,
> >
> > I just got received my mentors evaluation and I would like request Google
> > to kindly reevaluate my final outcome. I would like to point out my
> > mentors
> > each evaluation each point into you kind consideration.
> >
> > I am sorry that the project seems to have failed. I mentioned on the
> > midterm evaluation that I was concerned about the lack of progress on the
> > project, and unfortunately the pace only got slower after that. I think
> > that the biggest problem that we had was that you simply did not dedicate
> > enough time to the project to succeed. When we were in the project
> > selection phase, you said that you could dedicate 35 hours a week to the
> > project. However, this turned out to be a wild overestimate. I doubt that
> > you spent more than 5 hours a week during any week, and for many weeks,
> >
> > First of all my mentor I would like to mention my mentor has never spent
> > with me at lease one or two hour each week. Even  though we have agreed
> > to
> > share the status by each twice week, he has always ask for status without
> > even let me what to do with my project without any guidance. Sometime I
> > got
> > even stuck he has never even shed  light, right from the beginning I
> > learned their project deployment, and I worked out their development
> > environment from my own. Apache htrace is still incubator process doesnt
> > even have proper documentation. Expectation from my mentor is
> > unacceptable
> > under this conditions. He always say "You need to ask questions" If you
> > can
> > read until last of my mentor evaluation , he even himself agreed that
> > even
> > at last moment I have worked towards completion of project. There s not
> > much left in this project. Theres no way one can do that without working
> > at
> > 5 hour per week. And
> >
> > you seem to have spent 0 hours-- not even bothering to respond to emails
> > or
> > send a status update. It's very frustrating when a student becomes
> > uncommunicative for almost a full month at a time.
> >
> > This is a complete false statement I have never been in active for full
> > one
> > month. I have only been inactive maximum close  for two weeks. This is
> > personal mail Colin my mentor and we agreed to move on. After two weeks
> > inactivity this is the email I got from my mentor,
> >
> >
> > Hi Nisala,
> >
> > You've been unresponsive for half a month.  I'm concerned about the
> > project.  Frankly I feel like we might not have time to finish now,
> > since you took such a long unannounced break in the middle.  The final
> > evaluation is on August 15th.  Let's think about this more and how we
> > could prevent it from happening again in the future.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > This is his personal mail from him for my maximum inactivity for two
> > weeks
> > and we agreed to move on by JULY 19.
> >
> > My single biggest suggestion for improvement is to respond promptly when
> > other people try to communicate, and to stick to pre-agreed schedules of
> > project updates and meetings.
> >
> > First of all we agreed only share status on emails we never had meetings,
> > we have never scheduled meetings.
> >
> > This is the email from my mentor that we agreed to share status by only
> > mail. This is on Fri, May 6 during community bonding period.
> >
> >
> > Hmm.  Video calls seem to be difficult, owing to the time difference and
> > some of the technical issues.
> >
> > Instead, how about we exchange status emails two times a week.  Monday
> > and
> > Thursday seem like good days to email.
> >
> > I'll start.
> >
> > A big part of Google Summer of Code is learning to interact with the
> > community and learn some things about the project.
> >
> > I have only communicated my status updates via JIRA ticket [1]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362 where all community
> sees
> > my project. You will notice I have completed his reviews which has put
> > during the final GSOC mentor evaluation period. Because we both agreed to
> > successfully completion in earlier.
> >
> > When you try to complete a large portion of the code just a few days
> > before
> > the end of GSoC, the community has no time to review it, let alone
> > discuss
> > it. Code review takes time. It's also very important to respond to all
> > the
> > comments people make in a code review. I remember having to make the same
> > comments several times before you would address them.
> >
> > What I wanted to highlight is [1]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362 He still adds reviews
> > for
> > code that I wrote in mid term.
> >  If you look at [1]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?
> focusedCommentId=15333197&page=com.atlassian.jira.
> plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15333197
> > He has never mentioned anything about kudu schema but now adding reviews
> > regarding that end of the project at [2]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?
> focusedCommentId=15429907&page=com.atlassian.jira.
> plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15429907
> >
> > This is totally unacceptable rather if some one want to fail that project
> > do something like that. I agree in one time I couldn't address his all
> > his
> > requirements at once. He is keeps on adding reviews for code that I
> > written
> > for midterm regarding kudu schema and handling multiple parents of spans.
> > He mid term code review does not include them all. Even he has failed to
> > answer which schema should use.
> >
> > In this [1]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?
> focusedCommentId=15437201&page=com.atlassian.jira.
> plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15437201
> > This was his response about kudu schema, where he claims I should have
> > looked some other code as he claims
> >
> > This is one reason why I suggested that you look at LocalFileSpanReceiver
> > and HTracedSpanReceiver rather than HBaseSpanReceiver.
> >
> > Which is completely false statement, He has never mentioned such to me
> > even
> > in that thread or personal mail. I wonder whether he could prove that to
> > anyone. He wanted emphasize this project failed because of me this which
> > is
> > completely a false statement.
> >
> > I am glad that we have at least a little code to start from when building
> > a
> > Kudu spanreceiver. What we need to do to get this merged is to actually
> > complete all the tasks mentioned in the original proposal document--
> > develop a way to run the full web interface against the Kudu
> > SpanReceiver,
> > write good documentation for setup and deployment, understand what the
> > correct schema to use to store data in Kudu is, measure performance, and
> > write unit tests.
> >
> > This my proposal under [1]
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/14pnwHj5IsstCuBG3puD0x36KSmXxn
> glryRsfJcWP3Kg/edit?usp=sharing
> > This the last update which I gave to him under comment [2]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362?
> focusedCommentId=15428686&page=com.atlassian.jira.
> plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15428686
> >
> > Where I have completed second part of the project which has not been
> > reviewed, and If he could provide the answer whether to use the webapp (
> > in
> > previous comment ) similar to HBASE this project is done done. Where we
> > have similar webapp for like HBASE or integrate to current main Htrace
> > webapp. He never given answer because He wanted look this project failed.
> > Even the current HBASE htrace recever has have so many limitations, He
> > too
> > much expect this KUDU receiver to be PERFECT which I believe, is
> > completely
> > unacceptable.
> >
> > In my proposal I have never mentioned anything about performance test for
> > different kudu schema. Even in this main thread [1]
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-362 he has never mentioned
> > such. These are totally false statements. However I agree on the
> > documentation.
> >
> > The code I written for both span receiver and span viewer have unit tests
> > under pr [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-htrace/pull/11 This
> > completely false I have written unit tests for both  span receiver and
> > viewer using KUDU mini cluster utility.
> >
> > I hope Google and Apache Organization Admins will reconsider my evalution
> > for GSoC 2016. In
> > [1]
> > https://gist.github.com/nisalanirmana/9ac0b8d34ee198f4dcafc64e6f84ba5a
> > I have mentioned all the work that I completed. Since my mentor is first
> > time mentoring, He think all code should be by mentor evaluation. Which I
> > believe it is not the expectation.
> >
> > Regards
> > Nisala
>

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