Developer Application Criteria - Was Re: New Application processes

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Thu Jan 8 02:11:44 GMT 2009


On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:59:24PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 20:46, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:44:16PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 19:24, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:46 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > > > For improving the process just for the skill-level consideration,
> > > > > what I
> > > > > would like to see is sort of a self-directed "exercise workbook",
> > > >
> > > > I think this is a good idea.
> > >
> > > Here's a good list of questions for the workbook:
> > >
> > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nm/trunk/nm-templates/?rev=0&sc=0
> >
> > Wow, yes that's definitely a good list, exactly the type of questions
> > I'd think should go into such a workbook.  Some might be better done
> > as hands-on tasks than as essay questions, but that's pretty much what I
> > was thinking.
> 
> I don't think we want to recreate the Debian NM process in Ubuntu.

Certainly not.  Who'd want to grade these after all...  But for
*self-assessment* purposes, particularly for people who will be serving
in a heavily packaging-oriented role, these give good guidance for
honing ones' skills.

Bryce



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