From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EO5wH-0007NL-7A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:04:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j983saPp004760; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 03:54:36 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j983quOi029116 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 03:52:57 GMT Received: from [69.176.143.101] (69-176-143-101.dov.spartan-net.net [69.176.143.101]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9841nfM000730 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:01:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4346FE89.70606@egr.msu.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:02:33 +0000 From: Alec Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050806) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information References: <46059ce10510071821n672699bdhcd8d875e7293bed3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 92f8f1cb-0a90-45d0-8fbd-c39d567c5083 X-Archives-Hash: b683fbbde2b12c1927c902ff4e79b91e R Hill wrote: > Dan Meltzer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a frequenter of #gentoo-*, as many of you know :) >> >> Tonight, hanging out in #gentoo, I observed a huge amount of incorrect >> information once again.. tonight about profiles, cascading and all >> that jazz, which to be honest is fairly undocumented. I decided to >> give a miniclass on how it worked. ferringb and antarus sat in, and >> it was just an off the cuff information/QA session. >> >> Okay, so that worked, but then I got to thinking, why not do these >> fairly regularly? I do not profess to know enough to hold them about >> a large amount of topics, but I think this could surely supplant the >> current documentation process. Here is basic rundown and example. >> >> Developer A decides to speak about a specific aspect of portage, the >> discussion is announced on lists and in gwn a week or so in advance. >> The discussion could take place in a channel such as #gentoo-class, >> and logged. The developer would cover it as he saw fit, and then have >> a Q/A period after. The entire class is logged, and added to the >> website on a publically accessible page. If the docs team thinks its >> a useful subject, they could translate into a more formal page, and >> use the logs for reference, if not, it would still be availible >> information to anyone wishing to read it. >> >> My thoughts are this would be best suited to Gentoo-specific things, >> portage, gentoo's infrastructure, baselayout, anything else >> ideosynconatic (sp?). But, I suppose it could be on anything if the >> developer so wished. >> >> Ideas? thoughts? comments? >> >> Lets hear em :) > > > I think quick-basics tutorials like this would be a great addition to > GWN, but if the IRC Q&A format works then I say go for it. > The problem with tutorials is you get a limited view of the one or two people writing it. At least with the IRC Q&A you get some "real world" questions. Granted, I wasn't too impressed with the first gentoo-class that was held, but it was horribly impromptu and there were only 7 people ;) Alec Warner (Antarus) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list