Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:36:45AM -0600, Tres Melton wrote: > I think that the best thing to do would be to put up a web page with > some documentation or a topic outline and then schedule a Q&A on IRC and > maybe in the forums too. There are a lot of topics that aren't > documented that well. W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-08 Thread Tres Melton
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 11:34 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Hi, > > Your idea has its points, but I'm not sure if classes aren't just a > work-around > for lacking documentation in general. Of course, IRC is a lot more > interactive > than a tutorial, but reading IRC logs is really not the best

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: > So basically, the documentation shouldn't be the primary location to get information. s/shouldn't/should I really shouldn't write emails before waking up :/ -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Your idea has its points, but I'm not sure if classes aren't just a work-around for lacking documentation in general. Of course, IRC is a lot more interactive than a tutorial, but reading IRC logs is really not the best method to lern something about a certain topic, so documentation would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Saturday 08 of October 2005 03:21 Dan Meltzer wrote: > 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

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-07 Thread Dan Meltzer
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 wo