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User:Chris Tyler/SBR600 Changes

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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