Non-active members are not required to complete a major project

[stevenmirabito]

As the title suggests, this prevents members who are not active from submitting the major project form.

[liam-middlebrook]

Why remove the option for a member who isn’t active to submit if they wish to have a project they’re working on evaluated?

[stevenmirabito]

Because it's a waste of Eboard's time to evaluate membership requirements for people who do not have to complete said requirement. I would instead suggest they submit their code to http://csh.review

[mbillow]

I have seen it abused a lot. There is no need to have Eboard review a major project not required for an evaluation.

[devinmatte]

From what I understand there is historical instances of alumni submitting major projects. I don't think we should discourage that, however they don't need to do so through the conditional form if they actually want to pass a major project. So I see this change as good, as long as, if an alumni actually wishes to pass a major project, that EBoard hears them out.

[liam-middlebrook]

I can understand that reasoning and I’m always happy to see people encourage use of http://csh.review

I do feel it’s important to note that csh.review isn’t about whether or not something makes the cut. It focuses more on providing feedback so the developer can improve on their project and in turn their own skills. That’s not necessarily what I see happening during the evaluation of major projects, so perhaps non active members who submit them are looking for something else.

[mbillow]

I agree they are looking for something else, but whatever that something is I don’t think it is productive or useful. Who cares if Eboard approves of your projects if you aren’t an active member? It isn’t any of their roles to evaluate non-member projects.

[liam-middlebrook]

FWIW this change looks fine to me. I’d prefer you take Marc’s suggestion about avoiding nesting before submitting but it’s fine without it.

I’m against the idea of evaluations processes which are handled by conditional happening outside of conditional. If you’re going to cite the constitution and say only active members can submit major projects that must be acknowledged by eboard that’s fine, but the stance should be consistent and not allow a side-channel for submitting major projects.