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On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800 |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having |
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>> been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as Gentoo |
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>> dev, and the second time I did the quizzes it took me 3 months. |
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>> I've seen others take a long time doing them as well. Davide (pesa), |
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>> one of our most valued contributors in the Qt team, took close |
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>> to two years I think. |
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> If it's taking you that long, you're doing something wrong... The |
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> quizzes are pretty easy, and only test the bare minimum of what you |
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> should know. They shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours. |
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I'd be interested in why it was taking so long as well. I took the |
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quizzes first when becoming an AT, and later when becoming a dev. The |
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level of rigor was much higher of course when becoming a dev - which |
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was appropriate. I did struggle because policies were not always |
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spelled out, so many of the questions took interaction with my mentor |
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to resolve. Sometimes the indirectness of some of the questions was |
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frustrating, but it didn't take more than maybe 8 hours in total with |
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revisions/etc. I'd give it my best shot, my mentor would review and |
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offer hints/suggestions, and we'd iterate. I learned quite a bit in |
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the process. |
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Random thought here - it probably wouldn't hurt to have some kind of |
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ebuild tutorial that works through a few examples to explain how |
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ebuilds work, and demonstrate good technique. That could be useful |
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not just for developer candidates, but for the community in general. |
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Our ebuild docs aren't bad at all actually, but they're mainly in the |
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form of reference now, and something that was more oriented to |
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teaching might be useful. Maybe we need something that starts with |
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"hello world" and goes from there... |
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Rich |