From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 9 17:46:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02287 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02279 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA01951; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:15:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA34590; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:15:06 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981210121506.H12688@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:15:06 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith , van.woerkom@netcologne.de Cc: eivind@yes.no, imp@village.org, archie@whistle.com, rnordier@nordier.com, vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem reports References: <199812100022.BAA77651@oranje.my.domain> <199812100114.RAA01641@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812100114.RAA01641@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 05:14:23PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 9 December 1998 at 17:14:23 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>> Teams, and cycle between the members (to reduce volume). >> >> It would be nice way for me and possibly for others to learn more >> about FreeBSD hacking, if a senior team member could have a first >> look at those bugs, give hints on how to fix them to volunteers >> and later reviews the solution attempts. >> Some kind of master/apprentice thing. > > This typically degenerates into the "tutor" doing all the work, with > the "pupil" not actually getting much out of it. If it's done incorrectly, yes. It can also be done correctly. > A better way is for the pupil to find a bug report that sounds > interesting and not too scary, and spend some time learning about > the subsystem(s) involved, eventually getting to understand the bug > in that context. While doing that, asking questions of the tutor > places less load on the tutor and gives the pupil more "real" > exposure. That's a correct way. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message