[arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 00:08 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On (11/15/10 09:05), Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> -~> On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:39 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> -~> > On (11/14/10 14:05), Isaac Dupree wrote:
> -~> > -~> On 11/14/10 09:32, Jim Pryor wrote:
> -~> > -~> >...
> -~> > -~> >
> -~> > -~> >I would certainly understand and could not reasonably object to any
> -~> > -~> >distro's demoting dcron to an unofficial package. But as I said, I I
> -~> > -~> >will fix dcron anyway, I hope within the very near future. I'll announce
> -~> > -~> >here when I believe the git version has the necessary fixes, and if
> -~> > -~> >feedback sounds good, will make a new official release.
> -~> > -~> >
> -~> > -~> >Extra hands might not help right at this particular moment, but they
> -~> > -~> >would help the package be more reliably maintained going forward. I'd be
> -~> > -~> >glad to give other interested developers git-push privileges.
> -~> > -~> 
> -~> > -~> Thank you for your efforts!  I am sure it is a service to many
> -~> > -~> people to have a dcron that works well.  Even if Arch devs decide
> -~> > -~> a different default cron daemon for Arch some day.
> -~> > 
> -~> > Yeah, I double that. Especially considering what a nightmare teaching can be
> -~> > close to the end of a semester...
> -~> > 
> -~> Teaching as a nightmare? What's marking, then?
> 
> Easy. It's like measurement. If you know an average grade for the class and the
> spread (e.g. based on past experience), just distribute true grades according
> to an appropriate probability distribution... All you need is a good random
> number generator. If done properly, takes ~20 min/30 people, including checking
> + bookkeeping. Then, back to research!
> 
Now I understand why my marks never seemed to correlate with effort back
during my degree years.... I must remember this trick for the next time
I mark 80+ scripts.