Debian "certification" Re: Any comment for RHCE?

[mako at debian.org (Benj. Mako Hill)]

<quote who="Bill Ricker" date="Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:59:48AM -0500">
> On 2/9/06, Matej Cepl <ceplm at seznam.cz> wrote:
> > Para[l]lel question -- is there any certification for Debian?
> > And how [...] seriously taken it is?
> 
> The Debian community takes "Debian Developer" status very seriously,
> but it's not a "certificate", it's earned membership in the
> movement.

If someone has passed the Debian New-Maintainer process, they are
almost certainly pretty good at maintaining Debian machines and the
nitty gritty of package maintenance. With that said, a large portion
of Debian maintainers are not developers and the DD status is *not*
designed to be viewed or used as a sort of certification.

AFAIK, LPI offers certification in generic GNU/Linux administration at
several levels. They offer questions both for Red Hat and Debian based
systems so you could ask for someone that had LPI certification on the
Debian version of the test.

That said, I certainly don't take any type of certification
seriously. I'm always much more impressed by applied knowledge in the
from of visible contributions to the Free/Open Source software
community through participation or talks at a LUG, in support
channels, and through code.

Regards,
Mako


-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako at debian.org
http://mako.cc/

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