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

[R Hill]

Dan Meltzer wrote:
> 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 :)

I think quick-basics tutorials like this would be a great addition to 
GWN, but if the IRC Q&A format works then I say go for it.

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