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

[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 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 :)

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