On 5/24/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
There are not any reasons why your proposal was not selected. I think that is the wrong question. You presented an excellent proposal. It was well liked and highly ranked. The decision of which application were not going to be selection was comparitivly easy and completed early on. Your proposal was selected for the final pool of great proposals. So the question is rather "why were other applications selected?" The proposals were ranked by vote according to how they would benefit inkscape user community. And thus applications that corresponded to multitudes of feature requests, bug reports, and irc chats recieved greater numbers of votes.
I would also like to add that the voting/ordering was done under pressure at the last minute, with not all of our mentors present. So there unavoidably was an element of randomness involved. On the other hand, the top rated projects were all good, so maybe it's not exactly bad that the exact order was somewhat affected by pure chance. Not to mention that the exact number of slots was also unpredictable for obvious reasons. Your proposal ended up just one step below the cutoff threshold, so I would consider this just "bad luck" and not at all a sign of some problems with your proposal as such, or our unwillingness to go with it.