On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:27:45AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:21:33PM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010_plan#Workflow_plan mentions a > > coding test that students have to pass - where do we find out more about > > the test, how to administer it, how it's designed, etc? (I can > > understand the test itself being non-public so students will take it on > > even footing.) > > > > I've been searching but unable to find stuff, so if it's simply that I'm > > missing something, just let me know. ;) > > The answer is simply that it doesn't yet exist. > > It is not a Google requirement and many organizations don't use one. > It has been recommended, however, by many others. > > We have a few choices: > > 1. Cook one up ourselves. > 2. Borrow a FLOSS or public domain test but not announce what it is. > > That's all I can think of. I can assist on the second item but not > the first. > In the cook one up ourself vein, I think that projects that can do it are better off cooking up different tests for different applicants. For instance, I might have one person apply to my project with the idea of "create a web front end for the application". Another one might submit a proposal to "Rewrite the core in C to reduce memory consumption". I'd probably want the first person to demonstrate that they can start a TurboGear2 project and make it do something (store a message in a db and give it back on another page). The second person I'd want them to show they could use the python-C-API and perhaps some indication that they understood how to optimize code. -Toshio -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/summer-coding/attachments/20100425/1a43abd8/attachment.bin
