Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 26 July 2008, Donald A. Tevault wrote:
  
Will there be anything about the Ubuntu way of designating PATA hard
drives on the exam?
    

This is the wrong list for such questions, this list is for discussing 
future exam objectives and exam development.
  
I believe that Donald's question WAS related to future exam objectives.  I didn't see anything in his question that mentioned anything about specific exam questions; he was just asking if there are plans to include libata in future exams...which IS a question about future exam objectives.
Plus, everyone who has written an LPI exam signed a waiver beforehand 
that they would not answer specific questions such as these.
  
I haven't written an LPI exam, so I don't know specifically what the waiver consists of (although I would guess it is more of a non-disclosure agreement, not a waiver).  However, it will be very difficult to discuss future exam objectives via this mailing list if we can't ask questions and give answers to exam objectives.  :+}
However, to put your query in perspective, the naming convention used by 
libata has been a mainline kernel feature for something like two years 
now. Don't you agree that this makes it required knowledge to 
efficiently admin a Linux system? And therefore that anyone who does 
not know this about libata probably isn't ready to write the exam yet?
  
I was under the impression that this list is designed to openly discuss which topics should or should not be possible future exam objectives.  I didn't imagine that this list was intended to determine who was prepared to write LPIC exams.

I'm concerned that responses such as this will curtail the intent behind this list.  Open discussion means "don't bash someone for making a suggestion".  If you agree, a simple "good idea, I agree" would be best (IMHO).

As with all mailing lists, tempers can flare when intent isn't clear.  Remember the golden rule of sending emails to a group: write once, read thrice, and only then hit send!

-Bo

  
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