On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably > mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next > semester. I know two students will most likely go through the > recruitment process, others may at least contribute. So its like GSoC > but the focus is not one project but an overview of general gentoo > development, and I will have to touch on lots of stuff outside of gentoo > per se, like how autotools and other build systems work. > > So what should I teach? Here's what I've got off the top of my head: > > 1. Open source communities and Gentoo's internal political structure. > > 2. Building a gentoo system, ie the handbook. Gentoo as metadistribution. > > 3. Delivering the goods: code -> build system -> portage -> compiled > goodies -> working system > > 4. How to work with gnu autotools. Writing a build system. > > 5. How to write ebuilds, ie the dev manual. How to work with cvs and git. > > 6. Arches, arch testing. Profiles. > > 7. Building stages. Catalyst. > > Somewhere in there I'll squeeze in Gentoo's "alt" factor: alternative c > libs, alternative compilers and hardening, alternative kernels, prefixes. > > Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to > future devs too. Everything will be creative commons. >
You might want to have a lecture about software licensing.
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