This is a really fun idea. Twitch and youtube make the most sense for sure.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 7:15 AM Rocky Hotas <rockyho...@firemail.cc> wrote: > > Hello! > > During this year's NetBSD Annual General Meeting on IRC (May 22nd), > several participants suggested the activation of some code tutorial > sessions performed by the developers. > > NetBSD sourcecode is in fact still a mysterious place for the new > users, or just for those who read it for the first time. According > to the chat, it would be great if some developer could show how they > work on the sourcecode, for example with a live session, with any > mean: a Youtube live, or even just an IRC live session. > > This arouse several difficulties: not only as regards the lack of > time, but also the difficulties involved in understanding what a > developer is doing (some automated operations, with obvious meaning > for a skilled developer, are meaningless for someone else). > > I would like to re-open this discussion and, in particular, I would > like to suggest something maybe simpler. Instead of explaining why > some portion of code is being updated and how, it would be very > useful to show and explain the code just as it is. For example, a > volunteer developer could take an important, well known sourcecode > file, and explain it line by line; as a starting trivial file, > something like src/bin/hostname/hostname.c can be considered, then > moving to something more complicated like src/sbin/init/init.c. > > While I'm sure it's not possible to actually explain every line, > the principles used to write the code "that way", to place that > function in that point, to call that function with those argument > values, could be shown. > > I believe that some gentle introduction to kernel code would be > extremely useful to the whole community, giving anyone more means > to craft the code by himself, to improve it, to learn and eventually > (why not?) to become a developer. It would be a huge enhancement > for an "open-source" community, because the code would not only be > available, but also comprehensible. > > What do you think about it? Would some developer be available for > this? > > Bye! > > Rocky
