[OH-Dev] Giving the "tar" mission more of a plot

[Jessica McKellar]

> "You have been nominated release manager for the project called helloproject.

Some people aren't going to know what a release manager is, or what
naming conventions are. These could be explained, but naming
conventions aren't very exciting to explain.

Maybe the fact that ghello-0.4 doesn't have particularly interesting
content is making it hard to come up with ideas. To brainstorm briefly
about a plot on sharing and changing content via tarballs, with
potentially totally different content from what we have now:

- You could be updating a tarball containing family tree information
because someone was born recently
- You could be adding content to a group project for school or work
- You could receive and send content to a pen pal (computer pal?) via tarball
- You could be a teacher grading homework that your students have
uploaded as tarballs

What do you think? Anyone have other brainstorming material?

-Jessica


>
> The other developers have created a tarball that contains the first version of the project! Your job is to take their tarball, fix it up to comply with standard naming conventions, and then upload it back."
>
> (Rationale: All the good "plots" we have so far have some social element to them. For Git and Subversion, it's easy to imagine social use cases. For tar, this is the best I could come up with.)
>
> The tar file will have just one problem: the wrapper directory will be called "helloproject" and it should be called "helloproject-0.1", so we will ask you to rename it.
>
> Upside: This means that we'll simplify the mission a little bit -- you'll just download one tarball at the start. You'll extract it, and then work with the contents, rename the wrapper directory, then re-upload it.
>
> Downside: It makes the mission more strictly linear -- you will have to do the extraction part before you do the creation part.
>
> Feedback requested
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>
> If anyone has any thoughts on if you do/don't like this, say so on this thread. I'll wait a few days before submitting patches for these changes to the training mission.
>
> -- Asheesh.
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