On Friday 22 July 2005 05.00, Matthew Palmer wrote: > 2) Applicants don't like it because it takes a long time to write all > those essays Went through it quite recently, and I must say I didn't find it too onerous. I just was the absolute minimalist, answering the questions with one-liners only and trusting my AM to request clarifications and more detail if necessary (he did so on one or two points.) Yes, it got me a 'your answers are all a bit on the short side' reproof from FD, but so what... I *know* that before I dig into library packages etc. I'll have to learn quite a bit still, but so far I've just done a few trivial Perl packages. Having worked with Debian for a time (4 years or so, IIRC) and followed development on the mailing lists almost as long was very helpful, and of course I had to go back to Policy & DR a few times while writing answers, but I think the key element to me being able to quickly go through P&P and T&S was to already know most of this stuff, at least from hearsay. So I say Yay! to Matthews monitoring & mentoring approach: someobdy who learns Policy and Dev Reference by heart so that he can fill T&S and P&P probably won't be a good developer and - more important than all skills - can get by completely missing the culture in Debian. (I'm serious. I consider this a very important point.) Whereas working closely together over several months with a long(ish) time DD will pick up both a set of skills and quite a good bit working knowledge on how to navigate the Debian urban jungle... cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/smtp
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