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On 17/12/12 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 |
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> probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo |
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> Development next semester. I know two students will most likely go |
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> through the recruitment process, others may at least contribute. |
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> So its like GSoC but the focus is not one project but an overview |
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> of general gentoo development, and I will have to touch on lots of |
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> stuff outside of gentoo per se, like how autotools and other build |
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> systems work. |
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> So what should I teach? Here's what I've got off the top of my |
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> head: |
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> 1. Open source communities and Gentoo's internal political |
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> structure. |
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> 2. Building a gentoo system, ie the handbook. Gentoo as |
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> metadistribution. |
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> 3. Delivering the goods: code -> build system -> portage -> |
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> compiled 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 |
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> and git. |
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"5.5: BUGS" |
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Very appropriate here to include somewhere (perhaps as a precursor to |
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#4 or as part of #5) how to (A) generate useful patches, (B) apply |
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patches for testing (overlay ebuild, epatch_user, etc), (C) use |
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bugzilla (useful submissions, bug-wrangling, herds). QA related |
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issues would be good to deal with, also (maybe under arch testing in |
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#6?). IE: missing dependencies, automagic dependencies, --as-needed |
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failures, etc. etc. |
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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: |
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> alternative c libs, alternative compilers and hardening, |
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> alternative kernels, prefixes. |
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> Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide |
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> to future devs too. Everything will be creative commons. |
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The exam isn't going to be the ebuild quiz, is it? :) |
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