Hello Ronny, thanks a lot for bringing this up.
On 10.11.2012 10:12, Ronny Cardona wrote: > First off all thanks for bringing us the MOTU School again, its pretty > awesome to have it. As far as I know there are no current plans for MOTU School sessions. If anyone is working on them, please speak up. What we agreed on at UDS is: an Ubuntu Developer Week, regular Ubuntu Dev Google+ Hangouts (soon to start), updated development videos and meetings. > At this point we have a fresh and shining Ubuntu Development Cycle, R. > > I think that this is a *really* great time and opportunity to continue > with this. Topics that I'd love to learn by practice sessions, if possible: > * Ubuntu development phases: syncing, import freeze, feature freeze, > etc. and exceptions for them. > * Merging (from bzr, MoM, uscan) > * Syncing > * FTBFS (<- what about some bitsize bugs?) > * Best practices while packaging according to your experience (like > DEP3 tag for patches, i.e) These sound all like interesting topics indeed. Maybe we could start by updating/fixing the packaging guide to make sure that our docs all make sense and then we can use that content (even if it's just bullet-points in the beginning) to drive some sessions, whichever forum we decide to use for them. > What I think could be useless: > * Setting up packaging environment: we have a clear and nice packaging > guide for it, and to be easier, packaging-dev package. > * Fixing typos: we have had *lots* of talks about this and I consider > that every newcomer should know how to do it or have an idea of ubuntu > development workflow in general. I think I disagree. To you this might be less relevant now as you've made progress on your development journey, but there will be no doubt be a lot of new contributors who will appreciate some hand-holding in the beginning, even if good documentation is available. > Ubuntu MOTU School is a big chance for us to benefit from. Learn > directly from MOTUs is what I've always been waiting for, and I'm > willing to do it. My personal previous attempts to become a contributor > were not such successful, but I learned a bit. Thanks a lot for your offer of help. What would you like to work on? > As a newcomer I've pointed out what I think are the gaps to fill in this > sessions for us to start working by ourselves, and I would like to hear > from you. Thanks a lot for the feedback. If we could start by getting our docs in a good shape, then maybe get a tutorial-type step1-to-step10 script together, we could use it for videos, hangout demos or MOTU school sessions. Maybe somebody would like to help Ronny with this? Have a great day, Daniel -- Get involved in Ubuntu development! developer.ubuntu.com/packaging And follow @ubuntudev on identi.ca/twitter.com/facebook.com/gplus.to -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu