Erroneous Emails to Students Followup

[Carol Smith]

Hi all,

At 10:26am PT today we started receiving reports that students were getting emails about acceptance or rejection for Google Summer of Code. Upon further investigation, it appears user error was the root of the problem. We have reverted all changes in Melange and feel confident that the status of proposals is correct now. Unfortunately these things sometimes happen in the software world, and we are very sorry for all the confusion this morning. We're looking into changes for the future that will prevent this from happening again. 

**Please note that NONE of the emails sent out today have ANY bearing on final decisions for GSoC this year. Students will be announced at 19:00 UTC on Monday, 23 April.**

I want to call out a special thanks to Lennard, Sverre, and Madhusudan from the Melange team for responding quickly and effectively to this situation. They found the root of the problem and reverted all changes in less than two hours. 

Please let me know directly if you have any questions or concerns or still see any discrepancies on your dashboard.

Thanks,
Carol

[Shelly Copeland]

Carol, 

Just wanted to be a pest and let you know the discrepancy with my MIT proposal showing up on my dashboard is still an issue (per your email below). I just don't want it to possibly be misconstrued that it was part of this issue. Thanks for your time. It is GREATLY appreciated.

 

Shelly

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[Carol Smith]

Hi Shelly,

I understand, and this still only something that can be fixed or evaluated by the Melange developers cc'd on this email.

Thanks,
Carol

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[Shashi]

Hello,

MIT AppInventor had a completely different Google Spreadsheet form
(link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElmRi05dmJET0F4RXNiUG1TQ1pNZVE6MQ#gid=0)
as their proposal submission form and they did not ask you to use
google melange at all (instructions:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1i4qVi98HeVpVUv6jWhchLFhjAMAsgui8a9O83SDrms0).
Maybe that's the problem here. I filled and submitted the google
spreadsheet form and created a placeholder proposal on melange which
said that I've filled out the form, this appears just fine on my
dashboard.

Thanks