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
