Richard Biener wrote, On Thursday 24 January 2013 05:38 PM:
Anything I would consider "official courseware" would have to be contributed
to and maintained by the community (of which you can play the main part
of course). Now I don't know whether it is wise to try to ask the FSF if it
wants to "have" it (probably not ...). I as member of the community would
welcome such contribution and be happy to occasionally review the
material for it's up-to-date-ness.
This is exactly what want to happen.
There are technical details of the maintaining part - like would the material
reside in SVN? Or in the CVS where we keep our webpages? Or somewhere
else public (github?)? Would we want to have an official maintainer and
use the usual patch / review / approve mechanism for changes? Which
raises the question of the format the courseware is in?
Gerald? David?
By default, we make the slides available in pdf format but we can also upload
the
LaTeX and Beamer source if so desired.
To keep the matter simple in the beginning, it may also be possible to
basically reorganize
web pages and divide the material in two parts. The existing material stays
where it is
with appropriate links and the proposed course material also stays on my server
with
appropriate links in the web pages.
I would be happy to play the role of the maintainer regardless which approach
the
community decides to adopt.
This is very different from putting it as one among so many other things on
the wiki. Look at it from the view point of a newcomer. There are so many
links and so many documents on the wiki that one does not even know where to
begin from. Can we have ONE course for newcomers (of course refined based on
the inputs from the developers) which the developers think represent their
knowledge well enough for the newcomers? I don't mean to remove other
material. We should have as much variety as possible but let there be one
agreed upon starting point. After achieving some maturity, a person is not a
newcomer and would be able to extract far more out of the other options that
exist anyway.
Yeah, I know - the obvious link from the gcc.gnu.org page to click for
a newcomer
is 'contribute', but that page is awkward enough to scare off a
possible contributor ;)
Improving that front-door would be a good start (and this is an "official" part
and not the wiki).
Yes and it is from this view point that I had been seeking SC support.
Thanks and regards,
Uday.
