screencasts.bazaar-vcs.org

[James Westby]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:26 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:19 AM, James Westby <jw
> +debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> > Myself and Elliot have been talking recently about screencasts,
> > and I was wondering if we could have a screencasts.bazaar-vcs.org
> > domain, with some associated hosting to store our work.
> 
> Yes, I'd be happy to give you both the domain and some kind of hosting
> for it.  The question would be what we want it to look like.

That's great, thanks.

> > I'd like to make it more of a site than just dumping the videos
> > there, but it should perhaps be integrated with docs.bazaar-vcs.org,
> > what do you think? Can anyone see a good way to integrate the
> > screencasts in to the existing documentation that would supplement
> > what is there?
> 
> At the moment the doc site is a bit dry, since it contains rendered
> forms of what was in the source tree for various releases.  The main
> jumping-off point for it is bazaar-vcs.org/Documentation.  You could
> certainly link the docs from there.  Generally the in-tree
> documentation is the more official or somewhat more formal stuff.
> 

No necessarily related to this could we put an index.html page on
docs.b.o with links to the different versions, or just a link back
to the wiki? It would cause a little more work when uploading a new
set version, but it would be more visually appealing.

I can link the site from the Documentation page, but I was thinking
more about whether it would be good to link to the individual
screencasts at appropriate places in the documentation?

> I guess it depends a bit on whether the screencast is going to be a
> demo of Bazaar, or more of a tutorial.  In the second case it would
> certainly make sense to put it on the documentation page, and we could
> also link it from the 'tutorials' section of the various documentation
> pages.
> 

I think a couple of demonstration screencasts would be a great idea,
but I'm focusing more on tutorial stuff at the moment.

> Perhaps a good way would be to actually make screencasts.b.o run
> wordpress or some similar software.  Then several authorized people
> can post and people can subscribe for news and also comment, etc.

That's not a bad idea. It wouldn't allow us to create different paths
through the content with links and references as easily though. I
don't know if we need to have that separate from the docs pages though.

Thanks,

James