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The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel

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Re: The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel

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I think it's a great idea. I would rather a set of tutorials though. I don't want to email and waste somebody's time if I'm not able to commit to anything.

You're only wasting cpu cycles ... you're emailing a bot.

The author _says_ that it's done by shell scripts, but in reality he's checking them by hand (i.e. in the coding tasks you get actual code review).

Re: The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel

#12

I'm running through these at the moment. Some challenges have really heavy queues (ie: Challenge 3 has an expected response time of 1 month at the moment. ~8000 challengers are participating out of an expected It's an interesting format.

I agree - I really like it and I'm learning a lot. However, i'm losing motivation due to the lengthy queue.

Task 6 currently has a two month wait. Given that you may have to submit multiple times to get feedback and fix mistakes, you're talking a significant part of a year to get a single task done.

I understand there's a massively unexpected surge of users, but I'd happily donate to help improve infrastructure (if donations were ever available)

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