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 1EO3Qr-0007ZF-6m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:23:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j981E3qG010218; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:14:03 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j981CMSX015762 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:12:22 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so105255wri for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:21:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=AV0GJm5oF1xky/e6lm4tysuVXBZmsRWv3swXcvBU2h26dPmEQGkDXchiuN3WjCjsESX5rB9JLKM95zsblTe504PILilXlom0yDU4XVN+Xb8/nrCEtSXr5xkJCrl3J8TtzxrioYXoSC7MGwYiR9oDqatfM7+536IcxNEs9WBk/38= Received: by 10.54.142.14 with SMTP id p14mr2691201wrd; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.111.17 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46059ce10510071821n672699bdhcd8d875e7293bed3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:21:14 -0400 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j981CMSX015762 X-Archives-Salt: b6899e36-bc4c-4d30-952a-ae97b0797688 X-Archives-Hash: 2b5d0eb9d86fd122669296c1161822f1 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 :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list