Reason of checkstyle ideas rejection for GSoC 2015

Conversation between GSoC administration and Checkstyle :

<gsocbot> carols: Next in line is checkstyle with notice: checkstyle checkstyle https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/wiki/Checkstyle-GSoC-2015-Project-Ideas

* kblin gives voice to checkstyle

* scorche|sh gives voice to checkstyle

<checkstyle> Hi Carol, please share your thoughts about our ideas page

<carols> actually, just looking it over, i think it looks great.

<carols> your application looks good too.

<checkstyle> Do you have any preference of size (number of sentences) of one idea description ? We had a challange to describe clearly and be not too wordy. 

<carols> unfortunately this was another numbers thing. :-(

<carols> i’m sorry that i don’t have a more satisfying answer than that

<carols> checkstyle: yes, my preference is always for more information over less

<carols> i would rather see you over-describe a topic than under-describe

<checkstyle> So we just unlucky this year , right ?

<carols> it helps the students

<carols> yes, unfortunately so :-(

<checkstyle> ok, thanks a lot !

<carols> i hope you’ll try again next year

<carols> you’re welcome

Some reason why many other organizations are failed to pass to GSoC 20015:

<carols> we got a lot of applications in a few specific topic areas where we had to reject a lot of orgs, and we also tried to make space for new organizations who have never participated before over accepting organizations who have been with us for a long time.

<carols> it’s always difficult, and unfortunately some orgs had wonderful ideas pages and applications and still didn’t make the cut.

<carols> yeah, ideas page looks good to me, and it looks like we just made a bunch of hard decisions this year.

Full log of IRC feedback meeting for rejected organizations for Google Summer of Code 2015. #gsoc on freenode.net.