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Thursday session for POSSE APAC. Theme for the day: and (Development continued...)

[edit] Status Check

Brief quiz/review of previous day.
Discussion of Overnight Deliverables -- status, problem encountered, concepts learned.
Physical wiki update.
Open source news -- current developments.

Follow-up
- Fedora package review (Fedora bug 510788)
- Next steps:
  - CVS
  - Koji
  - Bodhi
  - Push to repositories
- Reflection on review discussion

[edit] Debugging and testing

Morning A Session

Overview and Demos of various debugging tools and techniques
- Locating Regression Windows, using "blame"
- Advanced code searching tools
  - DXR
- printf
- Debuggers
  - gdb
  - Visual Studio
  - Firebug, DOM Inspector
- Stack Traces

[edit] Open Source Collaborative Development

Morning B Session

Lab: Working as a Team to Solve a Problem, Leveraging Open Source

Using the techniques we've learned this week, and the entire group of participants, do the following: Note: the project for this section of the curriculum has yet to be defined; it will be pulled from the Fedora community closer to the POSSE APAC start date.

Discussion

Was the team successful in its tasks?
Which tasks were completed, which ones were not?
For those that were not, what prevented them from being completed?
How would you evaluate students who did this work?

[edit] Student Project Case Studies

Afternoon Session

We'll examine a number of Open Source student projects and identify:

How to find projects
- Community-built Potential Projects lists
- student-project flags
Assessment and grading
Risk management
What is success and failure?

Group discussion about potential student projects of interest to the participants.

[edit] Dinner

Get to know some local Open Source community members over dinner.