Hi
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 09:45:33AM +0300, merlettaia wrote:
> >
> > I wonder whether this might be a task that would fit into the outreachy
> > topic - I think its clearly QA and may be Nadiya might like to dive into
> > automatic debci tests. Nadiya, let me know if this is interesting for
> > you. I admit I never did it but with the help of the readers on this
> > list it should be possible to do.
>
> As I can see from Nadiya's timeline, she plans to work on some R package
> (r-cran-genabel) anyway, so probably this might is a good idea for a
> side-project. But I cannot estimate correctly how much time will it take,
> that's why I think that it's not a good idea for Nadiya to work on this
> during internship - it can ruin internship's initial timeline completely.
I do not want to defend my above suggestion but something general about
timeline should be said here: Timelines are made to be ruined in favour
of a better time line. In three monthes things might occure that might
make other tasks way more important than those once put on the timeline.
I'd defend any changes to the timeline and convince outreachy
administrators that Nadiya did a better job than once put on the
timeline. So this should be a non-issue.
I'd rather prefer that Nadiya will be able to learn as much as possible
to dive into Debian internals since the goal of Outreachy is to
integrate newcomers to the community which IMHO can be done better by
taking some challenges rather than working down a stupid plan. So
please take my suggestion as an offer - sticking to the original
timeline is for sure fine as well.
> I have enough spare time and I will be glad to work on debci tests alone or
> to help Nadiya. Last time we both used R 2 years ago, when we worked on
> common study project, it would be a good opportunity to remember it for
> both of us :) And for now this task looks like puzzle, I like puzzles :)
That's the attitude I really like. I admit I'm proud that I had the
pleasure to work with you in last Outreachy project and you are now
becoming involved in our cute little Debian Med project.
Lets keep on discussing here. If some common hardware is needed to
setup a working platform I can create logins at debian-med.debian.net -
just sent me your prefered login name and a ssh key.