Hi, When quoting, only retain the most relevant portions of the e-mail. That would help the readers of the e-mail a lot :) On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 9:30 PM Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all. I wanted to keep you informed, there have been some changes > in my personal schedule. > > > 7 Timeline (using the format dd/mm) > > =================================== > > > > Periods of limited availability (read: hectic chaos): > > - From 13/04 to 20/04 I will be having project evaluations and lab > > assessments for five of my courses. > > - From 20/04 to 01/05 I have my in-semester exams. > > - For a period of two weeks in the range of 08/05 to 29/05 I will be > > having my end-semester exams. > > My commitment: I will still have time during my finals to help people > > out on the mailing list, get acquainted with the community and its > > processes, and even review patches if I can. This is because we get > > holidays between each exam, and my grades are good enough to that I > > can prioritise Git over my studies ;-) > > Because of how hard COVID's second wave has hit my place, my exams > (which happen offline) had been indefinitely postponed. My university > has since given me the new dates for the finals -- either I give it on > June 2, or give it on an unannounced date in July. Either way it will > be happening during the GSoC coding period. > > I just want to reiterate that I will be less available in the two weeks > during which the exams take place. I intend to work half-time on the > project only for those two weeks, and I don't mind working a little > extra on the other days to make up for it. > > I will send another update for which slot I will be choosing *if* I get > selected for GSoC. Since the dates are shifting around a lot, according > to the situation, I will send updates on those as well. > Thanks for letting us know. On a general note, this year's GSoC is unlike previous years. There's flexibility in the program that should help in situations like these. Some information about it could be found here: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/google-summer-of-code-2021-is-bringing.html -- Sivaraam
