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Re: Debathena entry in the SIPB project roles document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Chernyakhovsky)
Tue Sep 17 23:34:07 2019
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From: Alex Chernyakhovsky <alex@achernya.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:33:47 -0400
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To: Cel Skeggs <cela@mit.edu>
Cc: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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You're not going to get traction by telling students they need to "revive"
the project up front. Whether Debathena should be revived is a different
issue as IS&T no longer has staff that work on it full time or use for it
outside of the dialups.
Sincerely,
-Alex
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:28 PM Cel Skeggs <cela@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi debathena maintainers,
>
> My current understanding is that the main thing we need to get
> Debathena maintained by current students again (assuming that this is
> what we want) is to find a current student with appropriate skills to
> join the project and drive its revival, in the same way as what I've
> been doing with Scripts.
>
> I wrote a suggested entry for the new SIPB project roles document, which
> reads as follows:
>
> ** SIPB Debathena **
> Contact: debathena@mit.edu
>
> Debathena is a long-established SIPB project that maintains the
> operating system used by MIT=E2=80=99s athena clusters, and made availabl=
e for
> installation on group and personal computers. Currently, it does not
> have any students actively maintaining it, and is entirely maintained
> by alumni in their copious free time.
>
> Roles:
> * Project Reviver: work on becoming the first new student maintainer
> of Debathena in the past few years, by coordinating with previous
> maintainers, learning how the system works, dealing with code
> improvements and bugfixes, and bringing new students up to speed.
> * Prereqs: significant experience installing and using Linux,
> significant experience with the Linux command line, previous
> programming experience, strong communication skills, strong sense
> of self-motivation
>
> ------
>
> Does this entry seem reasonable to you? Is there anything you'd like me
> to change? You are also welcome to throw this out entirely and put
> whatever you want in the document; I'm suggesting this to try to make
> sure we have something for Debathena.
>
> Cheers,
> ~ Cel
>
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<div dir=3D"auto">You're not going to get traction by telling students =
they need to "revive" the project up front. Whether Debathena sho=
uld be revived is a different issue as IS&T no longer has staff that wo=
rk on it full time or use for it outside of the dialups.<div dir=3D"auto"><=
br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Sincerely,</div><div dir=3D"auto">-Alex</div></d=
iv><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On =
Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:28 PM Cel Skeggs <<a href=3D"mailto:cela@mit.edu">=
cela@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" styl=
e=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi deba=
thena maintainers,<br>
<br>
My current understanding is that the main thing we need to get<br>
Debathena maintained by current students again (assuming that this is<br>
what we want) is to find a current student with appropriate skills to<br>
join the project and drive its revival, in the same way as what I've<br=
>
been doing with Scripts.<br>
<br>
I wrote a suggested entry for the new SIPB project roles document, which<br=
>
reads as follows:<br>
<br>
** SIPB Debathena **<br>
Contact: <a href=3D"mailto:debathena@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nore=
ferrer">debathena@mit.edu</a><br>
<br>
Debathena is a long-established SIPB project that maintains the<br>
operating system used by MIT=E2=80=99s athena clusters, and made available =
for<br>
installation on group and personal computers. Currently, it does not<br>
have any students actively maintaining it, and is entirely maintained<br>
by alumni in their copious free time.<br>
<br>
Roles:<br>
=C2=A0* Project Reviver: work on becoming the first new student maintainer<=
br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0of Debathena in the past few years, by coordinating with previ=
ous<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0maintainers, learning how the system works, dealing with code<=
br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0improvements and bugfixes, and bringing new students up to spe=
ed.<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 * Prereqs: significant experience installing and using Linux,=
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 significant experience with the Linux command line, pr=
evious<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 programming experience, strong communication skills, s=
trong sense<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 of self-motivation<br>
<br>
------<br>
<br>
Does this entry seem reasonable to you? Is there anything you'd like me=
<br>
to change? You are also welcome to throw this out entirely and put<br>
whatever you want in the document; I'm suggesting this to try to make<b=
r>
sure we have something for Debathena.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
~ Cel<br>
</blockquote></div>
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