Re: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-13 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Would such a course seek to teach the principles or the rules? It’s currently an hour long, and while I do/would explain why some things are done that way, it’s not a deep dive into the underlying principles as I don’t think there enough time to do that. I think it’s easier to know

RE: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-12 Thread ross
ean Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 3:54 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubator Workshop Hi, > For my part, most courseware is just an *extremely* slow form of > reading. I really don't need to have somebody read to me. I tend to agree I also prefer to read something th

Re: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-10 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > For my part, most courseware is just an *extremely* slow form of reading. I > really don't need to have somebody read to me. I tend to agree I also prefer to read something than watch a video, when I do I using speed it up. However different people learn in different ways. Currently we

Re: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-10 Thread Ted Dunning
If the course doesn't involve actually doing things like checking releases, then a good, well indexed and cross referenced FAQ page is more useful (and the ones we have are very useful, speaking from experience). For my part, most courseware is just an *extremely* slow form of reading. I really

Re: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-09 Thread Willem Jiang
Yeah, I'm totally agree with that. >From my experience, I really learn a lot by checking the mail thread discussion and verifying the kit myself with the help of checklist. Maybe we can encourage the people to participate the vote in the general@incubator to get the field experience. Willem Jiang

Re: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I think an online version would be really helpful. > As for the self-paced version, I think just making the recording available > later should be enough. The reason I suggested a self paced one it that includes a number of activities, checking a real release, voting on committers and teh

Re: Incubator Workshop

2018-09-09 Thread Yaniv Rodenski
Hi Justin, I think an online version would be really helpful. As for the self-paced version, I think just making the recording available later should be enough. Cheers, Yaniv On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 10:30 am, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > A few month back I ran an incubator worksho

Incubator Workshop

2018-09-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, A few month back I ran an incubator workshop at FOSS backstage that covered making and voting on releases and voting on committers into the projects. It had several exercises Would anyone be interested in either a: 1) Online self-paced version 2) Online live version (i.e. me going through