On Saturday 23 June 2007 05:40, Charles Plessy wrote: > Then the question is why not concentrating on the NM questions and > trying to exit the queue faster ? The answer is in a critisism written > earlier in this thread: paraphrasing. If the NM queue is to increase the > skills of the applicants, then strategies for answering faster defeat > this goal. Also, past school is is increasingly un-fun to do a lot of > theory without practice. (actually, in school as well, but this is > an off-topic debate ;)
For me this illustrates my point quite right. If this is the case, then changes to the existing NM procedure might be a better way to address this question than to create a parallel procedure. I've seen the critisism in this thread on the "paraphrasing" that supposedly required in NM. Well, my NM phase consisted of indeed a P&P section that required questions to be answered (which would also be required for DM's), and a T&S phase which consisted of practical (real) assignments, with my AM watching and giving feedback. This work ranges from fixing an RC bug, preparing a QA upload to doing bug triage and writing a man page. I'm doing the same now I'm an AM. The applicant is here to help Debian and doing practical work helps Debian and provides learning and/or display of ability by the NM. I therefore do not really believe that NM should be something that is purely paraphrasing and theoretical, although some questions will of course stay necessary. Thijs
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