I always wanted to create some YouTube videos covering certain topics, but never did it yet because I have certain quality expectations, and it costs a lot of (free and unpaid) time and energy to create good videos. Videos have some upsides like being able to visualize and quickly demonstrate things via screencasts, animations, etc., or just by more casual explanation than in a documentation.
But they also have a bunch of downsides, like: - It's almost impossible to keep them up to date unless you have a professional video recording team re-recording things whenever something changes. - It's harder with videos to just skim a topic quickly and find just the information you care about (for that, written documentation is usually easier). - They generally just take a large effort to do properly, and the joy and use you get from them as a learner really depends a lot on the quality of the instructor and the video production quality. I'd still love to explain certain topics via video at some point if I find the time and energy, but it would probably never be able to be a replacement for documentation, just explaining certain key concepts or demoing how to set up Prometheus in various ways, etc. So more of a complementary resource. On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:25 PM apoorve kalot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some ideas which i want to work upon, under Prometheus, i don't > know if it would be of that level, but i need of opinion of your all. > > The idea is, *developing a series of official YouTube tutorials which > will be part of official Documentation* for working and playing with > Prometheus, like from basics of node exporter to writing custom exporter in > custom language, or working with 3rd party exporters, > > *Why it is necessary/ should be done* : In the community IRC, there are > times when people might ask a information, which might be redundant, or > might be useful to other user at later point of time, and these tutorials, > or videos about basic misconceptions, would help to clear all these related > problems > > *Example* : Some of the other open source communities have these playlist > as part of official documentation, which helps community as well, along > with people who want use/contribute to the product itself, like Kubernetes, > TensorFlow, etc. > > *Advantages of using it* : > * The Redundant discussion of basic usage of Prometheus and other related > tools. > * Would indirectly help in extending support to community itself, and thus > would also help in getting new members/contributors which might turn into > individual maintainers as well. > * Learning through videos is more efficient as compared to documentation, > or written stuff [ for this opinion not all might be in favor, but > everyone would agree about the fact that former is faster than latter one > ]. For serious bugs and problems, one can always refer and ask help back > from Prometheus community IRC. > > These videos, other than basic implementation, would also contain basic > practices which involves while using Prometheus and it's services. > > Note : i haven't have selected the specifics topics which should be > included in these videos, but i would be asking other > Developers/Maintainers of the Prometheus as well as regular users of > Prometheus. [ I asked some of the maintainers on IRC and they liked the > idea, so i posted it here with some courage : ) ] > > Hoping to get your response/criticism about this, Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/1e85982e-4cf8-459b-adaa-67a213c049cb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/1e85982e-4cf8-459b-adaa-67a213c049cb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CA%2BT6YoyXL2So6ofY8DEzvj%3DMBP%3DoJX55cOG4FRcPtyhB6KDFWQ%40mail.gmail.com.
