nanyang-system-developers

Collaborators

Responsibilities

• Take on features, breaking them down into tasks
• Manage feature branches, merging them into main/dev branches with PRs
• Contribute information / solutions to issues
• Add documentation, or improve existing documentation
• Collaborate with other collaborators/contributors in a team setting
• Drive sprints for a feature/task team
• Coaching contributors

Minimum expected commitment: ~4 hrs/wk

Training programme

Materials

Programming

• Object-oriented programming
• Templating
• Refactoring

Security

• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Secrets and environment variables

Web

• Web programming

Design

• Application and interface design
• Design patterns

AI

Note: collaborators are expected to write their own code, with the use of chatbots and code completion assistants, but not code assistants or agents. This is part of the training to build up sufficient experience for leader-level contributions.

• Code Assistants

Lifecycle

• Software development lifecycle

Communication

• Interfaces and abstraction
• Advanced annotations and type-checking

Collaboration

• Project management

Versioning

• Git workflows
• Version labels

Process

• Automation
• Builds
• Feature management

Assessment

• Fixed/resolved an issue using an issue branch [Programming]

success condition: PR accepted by supervisor (merged and closed)

• Designed modules/classes for a feature/project [Communication]
• Wrote a module docstring/project README [Communication]

success condition: design accepted by supervisor (reacted 👍), tasks created

• Coached 3 contributors through at least 2 sprints [Collaboration]
• Provide feedback on 5 assignment submissions [Collaboration]

success condition: review accepted by supervisor (reacted 👍)

• Made a pull request to dev/main (for a feature) [Versioning]
• Review an assigned pull request (supervised) [Process]

success condition: PR/review is approved by supervisor (merged/reacted 👍)