User:Chris Tyler/SBR600 Changes

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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