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Am 17.12.2012 17:02, schrieb Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina: |
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> On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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>> Hi everyone, |
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>> Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably |
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>> mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next |
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>> semester. I know two students will most likely go through the |
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>> recruitment process, others may at least contribute. So its like GSoC |
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>> but the focus is not one project but an overview of general gentoo |
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>> development, and I will have to touch on lots of stuff outside of gentoo |
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>> per se, like how autotools and other build systems work. |
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>> So what should I teach? Here's what I've got off the top of my head: |
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>> 1. Open source communities and Gentoo's internal political structure. |
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>> 2. Building a gentoo system, ie the handbook. Gentoo as metadistribution. |
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>> 3. Delivering the goods: code -> build system -> portage -> compiled |
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>> goodies -> working system |
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>> 4. How to work with gnu autotools. Writing a build system. |
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>> 5. How to write ebuilds, ie the dev manual. How to work with cvs and git. |
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>> 6. Arches, arch testing. Profiles. |
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>> 7. Building stages. Catalyst. |
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>> Somewhere in there I'll squeeze in Gentoo's "alt" factor: alternative c |
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>> libs, alternative compilers and hardening, alternative kernels, prefixes. |
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>> Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to |
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>> future devs too. Everything will be creative commons. |
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> Can I take this course online? Will the lectures be recorded? |
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> -ZC |
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I would be interested in this course as well :) |
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