[Fwd: Re: RFC8 - Merging RPM and DPKG Level 1 exams]

[Scott Lamberton]

Dear Alumni members:

LPIC Alumni who are not members of the lpi-discuss or lpi-examdev 
mailing lists may be interested in the messages included below on a LPI 
Request for Comments on merging the RPM/DPKG modules of exam 101

Regards,

Scott Lamberton

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Scott Lamberton
Director of Community Relations
Linux Professional Institute
Email: scottl at lpi.org
Web: http://www.lpi.org
Telephone: +1-416-666-1574


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: RFC8 - Merging RPM and DPKG Level 1 exams
Date: 	Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:03:23 -0500
From: 	Scott Lamberton <scottl at lpi.org>
Reply-To: 	scottl at lpi.org
Organization: 	Linux Professional Institute
To: 	General discussion relating to LPI. <lpi-discuss at lpi.org>, 
lpi-staff at lpi.org, LPI Examdev <lpi-examdev at lpi.org>
References: 	<42210A2E.8020904 at lpi.org> 
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0503030940560.5669 at localhost.localdomain>



Friends:

In response to Kara´s message below please know that anyone in the 
community can register on the public twiki and post comments to the RFC 
noted in the subject line.  Instructions for registration are at the 
following: 

https://group.lpi.org/cgi-bin/publicwiki/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration

The RFC itself (as in Taki´s message below Kara´s) is at: 

https://group.lpi.org/cgi-bin/publicwiki/view/Operations/RFC8

Furthermore given the nature of this RFC I am cross-posting to 
lpi-examdev, which at close to 600 members is our largest mailing list.

Thanks Kara for your response on this important issue.

scott

kara at lpi.org wrote:

>I either don't have a wiki login, or don't remember it.
>
>The split was done in response to the number 1 complaint we had at the 
>time.  The RPM'ers were adamant in being unhappy that their scores were 
>lower thanks to the DPKG questions, and the Debian folks were adamant that 
>they shouldn't have to take RPM questions.  
>
>The best solution would be if you could weight the items so that knowing 
>RPM and not Debian (or vice versa) wouldn't have a negative effect on your 
>score.  At the time we had to split this, there were no such options 
>available.
>
>I would prefer to tell candidates that they have to be ready to handle any 
>of the leading distributions to complete LPIC-1 and 2.  But this was 
>overwhelimingly rejected by the community.
>
>Sorry for the late response.  By including them both during scoring, I 
>wouldn't expect a true evaluation, given the number of people taking it 
>won't have any experience with the DPKG questions.
>
>-kara
>
>On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Dimitrios Bogiatzoules wrote:
>
>  
>
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>>Hi all,
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>>I wrote an RFC about merging the RPM/DPKG modules of exam 101. Please
>>take a look at
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>>https://group.lpi.org/cgi-bin/publicwiki/view/Operations/RFC8
>>
>>and comment :)
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Taki
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Scott Lamberton
Director of Community Relations
Linux Professional Institute
Email: scottl at lpi.org
Web: http://www.lpi.org
Telephone: +1-416-666-1574

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