I'll give you my impressions while reading it. So don't be surprised if I'm asking questions that get explained later in the slides

In the 'Show Me' slide there's a superfluous 'I'

. Starting with the slide 'Programming API' it was a bit confusing. Because at first I thought version meant version of the program code. Also a lot of "unspecific" sentences like 'do the appropriate thing' 'This does what it says'. Probably that works better when a presenter fills in the blanks.

Why does get_or_create_test_version need a person_id to create a test version?

"It finds the current version". In what way is a version current? Shouldn't there be 2 or more current versions?

"If none is found it chooses a random version... and saves it". Why save that random version. Shouldn't it be already stored in some version pool (otherwise it couldn't be selected. Or does your library *generate* random versions?

My main gripe here seems to be that the programming API is thrown in too early, I would have liked data definitions before API definitions. Then show the API and give an example how it is used to generate a test with two versions and display the test for a specific user. But maybe this is just a sign of my ignorance of the subject of your presentation or a sing of my brain not working

Got to slide 40 where I needed to think a while before I understood what 'changing the mix they get' means. '... while the test is running'. Probably not a problem at the presentation since you will be filling in the blanks

Got no further because I need to work for my day job some more, but hope this helps a little

In reply to Re: Please review my OSCON presentation by jethro
in thread Please review my OSCON presentation by tilly

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