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 the time. It would perhaps be a good idea to have >> training sessions within Debian.
I think this is a fine idea. I would like to take that training and I would like to be able to even train others with what I know. > > I'm not quite sure how feasible would that be, but something needs to be > done. Plenty of "simple" and easy to fix bugs could be prevented by > educating people [1]. Examples of those are bashisms and a wide range of > security vulnerabilities (that don't involve logic errors.) > > [1] In the best, non-degrading, sense of the phrase. > >> At the moment, pretty much all training is handled by each developer >> themselves: they read documentation, or source, and experiment with >> things. They might write some blog posts, or mail a list, or something. >> This often works, but I'm sure we can do better. > > It's been a few weeks since I started writing the drafts of some blog posts > about multiple different things. > > 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 persistent copy would be at the wiki > anyway.) I think this is a great idea. I also think perhaps we could have IRC sessions where people could learn various things, perhaps ranging from packaging to system administration to using the BTS effectively, etc. Jeremiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
