Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 49, Issue 30

[Dean Michael Ancajas]

Well said. I think people in general should also pay it forward. Could
be a good idea for volunteers to help check others' answers. For
instance, people who have passed task 05 should be allowed to check
task 1,2,3 etc.. from others' submissions so on and so forth.
Obviously, that platform is not possible right now but some sort of
"community checking" is desirable to relieve the main developers'
burden.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane
<aruna.hewapathirane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last I checked the challenge had 6000 plus people signed up. If I was the
> person who had to review and respond to all tasks submitted by folks who are
> taking the challenge that is 6000 plus emails which to me is daunting, and
> there is NO way I will be able to balance work+life+responding on time to
> tasks so my 2 cents is as keep this in mind when you get impatient :)
>
> I learnt the hard way, little 'always' but always does respond it may not be
> immediately as we would like but little will respond as and when time
> permits him/her to do so.
>
> Am on the 6th task and it took me three months to figure things out but the
> knowledge and skills I have gained far outweigh any time delays and response
> delays :)
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:21 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:35:08 -0700, Dean Michael Ancajas said:
>>
>> >   I have been waiting for 5 days now since I submitted task 03. I
>> > can't believe how slow this script is if all it's doing is parsing the
>> > results.
>>
>> The problem is that although there's some scripting involved, it's not
>> anywhere
>> near 100% automated - there's still a lot of human intervention needed.
>>
>> (Basically, you can write a script that can tell definitely that somebody
>> got it totally wrong - but you can't always get a script to tell that
>> somebody got it right, especially for more complicated assignments.
>> Looking for the output of 'printk("Here is the magic string expected");'
>> is easy - checking a more complicated thing like screwing around with
>> sysfs
>> is a bunch harder...
>>
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