On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:14:22AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:57:46 +0100, > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And every developer has to answer such a randomly gnerated questionary four > > times a year, so they prove that they are still interested in Debian and > > their knowledge about it is up to date with recent policy and other > > developments. No exception. > > I think if we can create such questions and the correct answers, then > it will be benefit for us.
Just for the record: I was trying to be cynical. > I know there are already several good documents for us (such as > developer-reference, packaging-manual, debian-policy, and so on), but > their volume continues to grow, and it is not so easy to keep up with > the current in every details (especially for those who are not native > English). You don't need to know every detail, only what is relevant for your packages. Automated tools like lintian are helpful, too. A standards version number in the package helps to keep track of what you already achieved and what not. > > OTOH, you risk to loose the contribution of people who think such a funny > > quiz is better left to monday evening TV. I certainly wouldn't bother to > > spend my time with them. > > If that "quiz" is not the "exam to pass" at all, but a kind of "quick > reference to the required knowledges in the Debian", how do you feel ? Well, if you think that this is a useful and important thing to do, then please volunteer to write such a document whenever a new policy is released. Please post it to debian-devel-announce then. But don't write it as a test, that is not helpful. Write it as a summary of recent changes, in this way I can much faster get the information I need. Every developer has their own way to keep informed (reading the mailing lists, checking diffs between policy revisions, whatever). It's counter- productive to try to force everyone into one particular way to keep track of the changes. Offer diversity, and everyone will be satisfied. > Maybe the well-created "quiz" will work to lower the barriers, I hope. As far as it is only provided, and never requested back, ok. Marcus
