This is a draft only!
It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on this information.
It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on this information.
Ideas for Improvement to SBR600
Feedback from 2010-3 Students
- Feedback about the value of the course was fairly positive.
- Common material at the start of the course was not very applicable to some projects.
- More coverage of VCS (Git) and Python was requested.
- More handholding requested (!).
- Note that 1/3 of the class voted with their feet and did not continue in the course to completion.
Reflections on 2010-3
What worked well
- Good interaction with selected upstreams
- Jesse, Luke, and James on fedpkg and autoqa
- Armen on Mozharness, firefox-fedora repo
Ideas for Improvement
- Starting students on projects earlier would be valuable.
- Need to review some basic sysadmin skills and principles
- Using public/private keys with ssh
- Least privilege
- Need to give more feedback, especially in the 0.1 range
- Should provide an assessment point at the Initial Research Plan stage
Students and Recruitment
- Good to have students who are comfortable coding
- Need to attract students who are not in their last semester