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[DISCUSSION] Cycle 4: Decide what we do differently this cycle. #12

Open kelle opened 9 months ago

kelle commented 9 months ago

Brain dump here things which you think should be different in Cycle 4.

kelle commented 9 months ago

I think we should ask people to put in ideal period of performances. E.g., I am ok with this same level of effort and this same funding mechanism for up to 3 years. Or, Since I'll be switching institutions/jobs next year, this commitment level is just for one year.

This enables two things.

  1. It makes it so that we could have 2-3 year subawards and contracts rather than doing new ones every year.
  2. It helps us budget for the future.
kelle commented 9 months ago

Make the COTR role explicit and clear from the beginning. COTR document

kelle commented 9 months ago

Last time, we had a comment period between "draft" funding requests and final ones. Nothing really changed during this period. I propose that we just have ONE deadline and that if we see duplicates or something, we can suggest modifications.

aaryapatil commented 9 months ago

Here is a link to the Cycle IV timeline document.

eteq commented 9 months ago

We can continue discussing here, but I will shortly set up a branch in this repo for us to start updating documents.

eteq commented 9 months ago

Alright, see https://github.com/astropy/astropy-finance/tree/cycle4, which we can use as a working space for drafting cycle 4's call. I've added a section that was missing last time about what happens after a proposal is accepted, which is where COTR comes in. We need to fill the rest of that out though, which will require some input from the CoCo.

I added some words also about PoP, although probably that needs to go in the template (which I haven't worked on yet).

eteq commented 9 months ago

w.r.t. https://github.com/astropy/astropy-finance/issues/12#issuecomment-1828517236, though... I don't agree, I think some substantial changes did happen in that period - mainly some proposals were scaled around a bit and .

That said, I think all of that happened in the first week or two, so maybe we scale it back from 6 weeks to 1 or 2 weeks? (I think it was 6 weeks before mainly because it hit a long vacation window?)