Mentoring Program

[Phil Bull]

Hi Charles,

> > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:55 -0500, Charles Davis wrote:
> I think a combination of the two. The information does exist but some
> folks may not find it presented in an order that is helpful to them. I
> particularly like the idea of task and goal oriented tutorials. Granted
> we are not the same as MOTU, but they have some good ideas when you look
> at their "tutorials" they take a known package and use it as an example.
> IIRC they use the GNU hello for one of their tutorials. I know that it
> might be an extra step but I would be willing to be that if we put
> together a "training branch" of a portion of Ubuntu-doc with subtle
> ( and not so subtle errors ), it would be a worthwhile. I for one know
> that Before i contributed any patches I downloaded the dev branch of the
> docs a few times and played with it. I also keep a copy of Hardy's docs
> (the full package) to work on and learn with. If we had a stable but
> "broken" branch it might make mentoring easier. Just a thought, take it
> for what you will :)

A (small) training branch sounds like a good idea. Perhaps something
split into different exercises, for example, "applying a patch" and
"fixing validation errors" exercises?

Thanks,

Phil

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