Hi Tetsuo, Hi Andres, right now there are no plans for a kernel developer LPIC-3.
I agree that there may be a need to convey certain information and updates, but this may mainly be a matter of finding the right format. Credentials like a certificate serve as an indicator of the skills of the certification holder. They are especially important when people will be given responsibility for a task. For a company, a certificate may be one of multiple indicators that helps them to decide who to trust regarding the ability to manage their servers. The Linux kernel is different. It has established QA mechanisms, contributors will receive feedback and will get acknowledgement and recognition when their patches make it into the kernel. A certificate won't change anything here, it wouldn't make any changes be approved earlier, and a list of actual commits is likely worth (at least) as much then a sheet of paper. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't be nice to have mechanisms to facilitate the onboarding of new developers, but those would more likely be education or mentoring programs -- eventually, a certification is at the end of an education journey, not at the beginning. Similarly, keeping up to date with changes in APIs and project structures will likely be better done with a newsletter, podcast or something similar. Tetsuo mentioned sharing information via a certification, in this case the actual benefit would be exam objectives. If such a knowledge sort would happen in a medium that allows more meat on the bones, the benefit will likely be higher. I am not sure what resources exist to get kernel developers started and keep them updated, if anyone has some good resourced to get started, feel free to share :)) Have a delightful start into the new week, Fabian On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:41 AM Andreas Klinger via lpi-examdev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > hi Tetsuo, > > Ingo Wichmann <[email protected]> schrieb am So, 14. Mai 19:43: > > Hi Tetsuo, > > > > an open certification for Linux kernel development would be great! > > > > But that's more work than just defining the objectives. We have to > develop > > and maintain questions. And update the objectives, as far as I know every > > 2.5 years. > > > > At Linuxhotel we frequently offer trainings on Linux kernel development. > I > > asked Andreas Klinger if he would help to develop the certification and > he > > sounds interested. > > yes I'm interested in working on it. > > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- Fabian Thorns <[email protected]> GPG: F1426B12 Director of Product Development, Linux Professional Institute
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