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.
Re: The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel
#11The 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).