Pairing new patch pilots with old patch pilots
Bryce Harrington
bryce at canonical.com
Wed Jul 6 19:12:35 UTC 2011
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:40:34PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> at UDS the question came up if we could double up new and old pilots to
> effectively train new patch pilots and make it easier for new pilots to
> get involved.
>
> What do you think about this? Especially as a new pilot/reviewer, what
> was your experience like?
Aside from your write-up I don't recall having many other questions.
But I'd been doing sponsoring for a while before that.
Mostly it is knowing how to do packaging. When I first started at
Canonical I recall you ran a packaging class at one of the sprints
which I found to be very helpful.
90% of piloting is easy; the other 10% is weird packaging corner cases.
Perhaps some sort of "packaging challenges" class or something would be
useful?
> If this is deemed helpful, what would a good process/format for this be?
It probably doesn't need much process.
"If this is your first time patch piloting, you may feel more
comfortable being a co-pilot your first few runs. Find a pilot in
your timezone and reschedule your time to coincide with theirs."
Beyond that, I'd say encourage new pilots to go through some packaging
classes to bone up on skills.
Bryce
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