2023-08-24 - Learning Journey Working Group - Meeting Notes #22

Agenda

  • Updates
  • Review feedback comments on the new tutorials
  • Review new tutorial

Notes

  • @zmitchell posted about the LJWG tutorials on Reddit and Discourse, got some good feedback
    • People want exercises for practicing their skills
    • Explain the env convention
    • Retitle “Where to next?” → “Next steps” (avoid Americanisms)
    • Introduce pname & version instead of name
    • Original purpose of nix-shell was to debug builds by hooking into the shell script created with stdenv
    • packages vs. nativeBuildInputs in mkShell
      • Put info about mkShell being a wrapper into a details tag
    • Improve mkShell docs
    • New stuff:
      • Installing NixOS without Internet access (ISO creation)
  • @fricklerhandwerk: What to do about overlaps between LJWG and “main” tutorials, how to best call attention to the learning journey,
    • @zmitchell: Will merge these two series eventually, for now it’s ok that there’s overlap

Action Items

  • @fricklerhandwerk: will create an outline for the order in which things should be taught
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