Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Henri Le Foll wrote: I have seen that Raphael Hertzog has written a blog entrie about conffile so I have created http://wiki.debian.org/Training This article is more oriented towards users than towards contributors. But I have other articles that are interesting for

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-21 Thread Henri Le Foll
I have seen that Raphael Hertzog has written a blog entrie about conffile so I have created http://wiki.debian.org/Training It is to start something concrete. Feel free to modify/rename/delete the page. Cheers Henri Le Foll -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-19 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 01:13:45PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Am 16.09.2010 09:40, schrieb Enrico Zini: I'd love it to see it eventually go a step up, like having some review process by people with especially strong experience, and having them published by an own blog (à-la

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
That would be awesome, please go ahead. A similar idea I had but didn't yet get time to implement was Debian work parties. Focussed, well promoted times when we invite folks to do one specific thing collaboratively. Fedora and Ubuntu do similar things too, test days, cleansweeps etc. Mostly these

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:47:33PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Random though: we could encourage people to write about different topics, post them to a wiki page (wiki.d.o/education/topic/sub-topic if necessary) and then post it on a blog that is syndicated by planet (a personal blog

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 16.09.2010 09:40, schrieb Enrico Zini: Random though: we could encourage people to write about different topics, post them to a wiki page (wiki.d.o/education/topic/sub-topic if necessary) and then post it on a blog that is syndicated by planet (a personal blog should be enough, a

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-16 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 16, 2010, at 03:47, Raphael Geissert wrote: Lars Wirzenius wrote: This reminds me: it would be good to improve not just the quality of our packages, but our developers. I wholeheartedly agree. Developing a Linux distribution involves a lot of skills, and stuff keeps changing all

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-16 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org writes: I'd love it to see it eventually go a step up, like having some review process by people with especially strong experience, and having them published by an own blog (à-la debian-administration) where they can be archived and searched. But that's

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-16 Thread Nathan Handler
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: Ubuntu has developer weeks, where various people give hour-long IRC training sessions on various topics. We could join them, or have our own. Or we could have ad-hoc training sessions, like Debian-Women has done, and and is

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-16 Thread Raphael Geissert
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Am 16.09.2010 09:40, schrieb Enrico Zini: I'd love it to see it eventually go a step up, like having some review process by people with especially strong experience, and having them published by an own blog (à-la debian-administration) where they can be

Debian training and code review

2010-09-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2010-09-15 at 10:22 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I, using my FTPMaster hat, do care a lot that we do not get $whateveritsname with upload rights that never ever had to show at least the basic understanding of packaging work. Looking at all the errors existing Developers do, even

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Lars Wirzenius 2010-09-15 1284541176.2573.77.ca...@havelock This reminds me: it would be good to improve not just the quality of our packages, but our developers. Just a quick comment here: DM has improved the quality of people passing NM *a lot*. Historically, we (FD, DAM) have seen lots

Re: Debian training and code review

2010-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Lars Wirzenius wrote: This reminds me: it would be good to improve not just the quality of our packages, but our developers. I wholeheartedly agree. Developing a Linux distribution involves a lot of skills, and stuff keeps changing all the time. It would perhaps be a good idea to have