Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 12/17/2012 07:46 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> >> 2. Write an ebuild for the project above, maintained in an overlay >> (also on GitHub), with sources fetched from GitHub. Add some small >> patch to configure.ac in the ebuild. Add USE flags. Add "make check" >> support to the build system, tes

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably > mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next > semester. I know two students will most likely go through the > recruitment process,

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/17/2012 01:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to future devs too. Hi, what is the level of the students, what are the prerequisites (i.e., have they already seen some sy

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 17.12.2012 17:02, schrieb Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina: > On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> Hi everyone, > >> Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably >> mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next >> semester. I know two stu

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably > mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next > semester. I know two students will most likely go through the > recruitment proces

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:18 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 12/17/2012 07:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: >> Then convert to autotools, update >> dependencies. Do it all on GitHub, with a separate branch for >> converting to autotools. > > That's not really a common thing to do for ebuild development (neit

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:02:24AM -0500, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > Can I take this course online? Will the lectures be recorded? > I would second the idea of an "online course" if that is possible: I would even gladly do the "beta testing" of such an online course... ;) WKR Hinnerk

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:32:03 -0500 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > 5. How to write ebuilds, ie the dev manual. How to work with cvs > and git. An important thing to teach here is how to code to a spec vs how to code to an implementation. It's also something people should know in general... -- Ci

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread hasufell
On 12/17/2012 07:11 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > Then convert to autotools, update > dependencies. Do it all on GitHub, with a separate branch for > converting to autotools. > That's not really a common thing to do for ebuild development (neither converting nor writing from scratch). Actually you

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread hasufell
> > 4. How to work with gnu autotools. Writing a build system. Writing a build system from scratch is actually not a requirement. However one should understand basics of the most popular build systems and probably have some advanced understaning of Makefiles and how flags work, where they should

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2012.12.17 16:02, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should >> > probably mention that I'm teaching a College

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to future > devs too. Hi, what is the level of the students, what are the prerequisites (i.e., have they already seen some systems programming using C?), and how many wee

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.12.17 16:02, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should > > probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo > > Development [snip] > Can I take this

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/17/2012 12:23 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/12/12 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, 5. How to write ebuilds, ie the dev manual. How to work with cvs and git. "5.5: BUGS" Very appropriate here to include somewhere (p

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/12/12 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should > probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo > Development next semester. I know two students will mos

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/17/12 7:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > So what should I teach? Here's what I've got off the top of my head: > Please comment. If it gets systematized enough, it can be a guide to > future devs too. Everything will be creative commons. I think it's worth to mention somewhere that althou

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably > mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next > semester. I know two students will mos

[gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next semester. I know two students will most likely go through the recruitment process, others may at least contribute. So its like GSoC but th