I want to learn with puppet, but there is no testing repository to use. Every change needs to be approved by ops and that usually takes several weeks :/ or it used to.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > TL;DR summary: reply to tell me what you want to learn so I can get you > a mentor. > > Longer version: > Sometimes I hear that someone wants to get +2 in MediaWiki core or the > ops repo, or that they hope to someday get into Google Summer of Code or > deploy changes on the site ... but they don't know how. > > And the "how" is going to depend on you. Maybe you're a systematic > learner and you thrive on a syllabus with readings. Maybe you're an > more opportunistic learner and you do better with exercises. Maybe you > prefer to discuss problems and ideas with a group, and maybe you thrive > with the personal attention of a mentor who'll review your patches and > suggest where you need to improve. > > I'm just speculating. Volunteers, staffers, any kind of technical > contributors, please reply to this thread to give me data: what do you > want to learn, and how do you learn best? > > Examples might be: > > * I want to learn enough about language engineering and mobile to help > out with troubleshooting mobile apps and the mobile website in Asian > languages. And I learn best by chewing on hard problems and getting > help in IRC when I need it. > * I want +2 in core and I want to work for the WMF someday, but people > don't understand me and my patches get rejected or just sit waiting a > long time, so I think I need to work on my English skills and figure out > what I need to improve in my engineering approach. I need a mentor to > assign me reading and writing work and CS texts to read. > > I will almost certainly use the responses to develop the structure of a > mentorship program, and start suggesting mentor-mentee matches that will > include volunteers and WMF staffers. > > (Unfortunately I'll probably lose internet access in the next couple > days due to weather, but I'll respond when I get back online.) > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
