* Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> [2013-03-07 19:07:35 +0100]: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:06:06AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > My plan would be to monitor BTS and archive changes using e.g. inotify. > > That would be part of a rewrite of the core of UDD. I'm not very much > > motivated about mentoring a student on that, unless it's a very good > > student. (I plan to work on that myself at some point) > > [ snip ] > > More to your case, I fully understand having high expectations before > being willing to mentor a student. So, how about devising a small > exercise, which somehow measures the minimum skills you expect to be > willing to mentor? It might seem draconian, but after all we do not > want to *force* anyone to mentor students they're not happy with. Some > exercise like the above might be a compromise.
For the debexpo project last year, we had the students fix one of the "low hanging fruit" bugs from our tracker. It helped us on several fronts: checking that interaction with the prospective student was good, as a motivation check, and of course as a raw ability check. AFAIK, the students didn't mind, it was a nice way to introduce themselves to us. Plus, we got free bugfixes ;-) HTH, -- Nicolas Dandrimont BOFH excuse #352: The cables are not the same length.
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