Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-18 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Pjotr Prins writes: >> As for format to use, Pjotr, have you considered using Skribilo? > > I looked into it earlier. It is an option, for sure. Maybe we should > start out with that and see if it works. I think it is attractive it > is Guile. I wrote something similar in Ruby to write my PhD thes

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:58:15PM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Yes, I just had conversations with one person today who was frustrated > trying to learn how to build their first package and lamenting the lack > of an official tutorial. Easy as it looks ;). But yes, I'd champion a stepw

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Leo Famulari writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:58:15PM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> > Pjotr Prins skribis: >> > >> >> Anyway, I don't hear much enthusiasm for such a project. >> > >> > I think I insisted too much on my concerns, making it sound negat

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:58:15PM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Pjotr Prins skribis: > > > >> Anyway, I don't hear much enthusiasm for such a project. > > > > I think I insisted too much on my concerns, making it sound negative; > > sorry about that. > >

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Pjotr Prins skribis: > >> Anyway, I don't hear much enthusiasm for such a project. > > I think I insisted too much on my concerns, making it sound negative; > sorry about that. > > I am definitely enthusiastic about improving documentation. I think > there’s some consen

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > Anyway, I don't hear much enthusiasm for such a project. I think I insisted too much on my concerns, making it sound negative; sorry about that. I am definitely enthusiastic about improving documentation. I think there’s some consensus that the manual in its current form

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > For someone willing to contribute non-trivial documentation, I cannot > imagine Texinfo being a significant barrier. For the most part, it’s > really trivial. > > WDYT? Texinfo is quite a bit harder to read/write than Org-mode. I

Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > In addition to the a packaging tutorial, I would also like a > deployment tutorial where explain how to do system configuration and > how to create a caching server/build server in a few steps. > > The information is there in the main docs (and source code), but what > we l

Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

2015-12-15 Thread Pjotr Prins
In addition to the a packaging tutorial, I would also like a deployment tutorial where explain how to do system configuration and how to create a caching server/build server in a few steps. The information is there in the main docs (and source code), but what we lack is a short descriptive list wh