On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath <[email protected]> wrote: > @Shakthi Kannan: > > If the Makefile is ok, I would like to know what I have to do next. > Please give me a roadmap for "fedx". I have got around a week's > holiday. That's why I would like to devote more time on the project.
First, a very Happy Diwali to one and all. With due respect for all the great work you folks are doing I would like to make a few comments. General ones more related to self development from my own experiences and what I see here as a trend too. Initially, a child needs someone to hold his (gender neutral) hand and guide him in a particular direction. Spoon feeding is OK at the beginning, but one must slowly start learning to work independently. One of the great skills that a hacker has. "Ability to manage oneself". http://www.hockin.org/~thockin/hacker.html (See 0.2) I faced a big problem when I moved abroad for my higher education and research. You are on your own here. You are given a goal of a project (very very high level) and you need to find your pathway. I found it miserably hard for the first 3-4 months as I had no clue what on earth was I supposed to do. How to reach a particular target. How to quantify my progress. How do I set my own milestones and check them. Both in my academic research and my google summer of code project, I am having/had the best mentors. They said "give your plan and roadmap, how you plan to approach it, define your milestones". At that point all I knew was what is the end goal / requirement. No idea whatsoever how/what resources/knowledge are required. I was initially hesitant. But managed to get some schedule and my mentors "helped" me correct my planning. In some cases, they left me to experience the hard way what was wrong with my planning. Yes, you will go awefully off-reality. But thats way of learning things. I am now quite confident of managing myself better and motivated to get my hands dirty with a problem that seems interesting right away. Thats a huge take away I got from Free Software and believe me it adds tremendous value to your skill set. So if you are still reading this email, why am I telling all this here? I see off-late SK setting up tasks and people finishing them. Yes, it was nice initially and necessary too. But now, what I would expect is the reverse way. Set your tasks yourself, inform the list and get feedback. Show us what "YOU" can do. Take initiative. "YOU" set the roadmap. "YOU" set your milestones. "YOU" come up with a design proposal. Announce it to the list. Yes you might be awfully wrong. But thats part of the learning. So start taking initiative and dont wait for SK to point you in a particular direction. @SK - Sorry. Had to tell it. You seem to be spoon feeding a lot :) Hope I made some sense. And thanks for reading the email till here. Regards, Aanjhan _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
