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

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Post by nullflow » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 9:45 AM UTC

The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel
eudyptula-challenge.org

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

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Post by darkFunction » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 11:09 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by kristoffer » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 11:40 AM UTC

darkFunction wrote: post #2

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

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Post by darkFunction » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 11:44 AM UTC

kristoffer wrote: post #3

darkFunction wrote: post #2

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.

I see. In that case, why not just put the exercises online?

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

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Post by farresito » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 11:57 AM UTC

darkFunction wrote: post #4

kristoffer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I see. In that case, why not just put the exercises online?

To get used to the kernel way of sending patches: email.

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

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Post by bmn_ » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 12:07 PM UTC

Since the page is not dated, I wanted to find out whether the challenge has just been released currently or not.

Inspecting HTTP headers gives a hint: Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:33:36 GMT

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

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Post by uulbiy » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 12:26 PM UTC

kristoffer wrote: post #3

darkFunction wrote: post #2

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.

Actually, it's processed by a script (a bot if you like), however, if something fails a person replies to you. This is the problem with many of the challengers. When everything is ok they proceed, when something fails[1] it might take weeks to get a reply.

[1]: failure might be because of a corner case or an implementation not working on a specific configuration.

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

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Post by kristoffer » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 12:30 PM UTC

darkFunction wrote: post #4

kristoffer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I see. In that case, why not just put the exercises online?

Gamification ... you need to "level up" to get new challenges.

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

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Post by agentultra » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by pronoiac » Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 3:23 PM UTC

I tried this back in April:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616270

I liked the Matasano Crypto Challenges, but this was less informative. It's a list of tasks, not a tutorial. There weren't pointers to resources, either.

There were 20 tasks then, btw.