Build Appliance 2023

2023-04-13T23:08:22Z

Trevor Woerner: native: add baseline results

2021-05-13T20:05:40Z

Trevor Woerner: /* Events */

== Yocto Project Events ==

Traditionally the Linux Foundation organizes the Embedded Linux Conference -- one in North America (ELC) and one in Europe (ELCE). The Yocto Project often has a considerable presence at these events in the form of:
* talks submitted/presented about The Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, and related technologies including a community BoF (Birds of a Feather) session
* a 1-day pre-event OpenEmbedded Developers Day (OEDAM [OpenEmbedded Developers Americas Meeting] for ELC and OEDEM [OpenEmbedded Developers European Meeting] for ELCE)
* a 1-day post-event DevDay
* a conference booth in the ELC/ELCE event hall, usually with demos

The ELC/ELCE events are often co-located with other LF-related events such as: the Linux Security Summit, Zephyr Summit, KVM Forum, Open Source Summit, etc… Starting around 2019, in an effort to better align some of these events, the early Embedded Linux Conference started moving later in the year, closing the gap between the ELC event and the ELCE event towards the end of the year and expanding the gap between the ELCE event and the ELC event. As a result there has been efforts to add YP/OE-specific events earlier in the year in order to maintain the roughly 6-month gap between events.

=== OE Developers Meeting ===
The OpenEmbedded Developers {Americas|European} Meeting is a 1-day event, organized by the OpenEmbedded members, for an informal, free-form round-table-style discussion of core issues of concern to core OE/YP developers, BSP maintainers, etc

=== DevDay ===
DevDay is a 1-day training event consisting of multiple tracks:
* a full-day beginners tutorial to get newcomers up-to-speed on basic YP/OE usage
* hands-on classes based on narrow topics of a more specialized nature

== Events ==
future events:
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/YoctoProject_Summit_May2021 Yocto Project Summit May 2021]

past events:
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/YP_DevDay_Austin_2020 DevDay Austin 2020]
* [https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/open-embedded-summit-0 OE Summit @ SCaLE 17x 2019]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_San_Diego_2019 DevDay San Diego 2019]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Edinburgh_2018 DevDay Edinburgh 2018]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Portland_2018 DevDay Portland 2018]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Prague_2017 DevDay Prague 2017]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_US_2017 DevDay US 2017]

for a list of YP/OE-related talks at ELC/ELCE see:
* [https://elinux.org/Buildsystems https://elinux.org/Buildsystems]

YoctoProjectEvents

2021-05-13T20:05:28Z

Trevor Woerner: /* Events */

== Yocto Project Events ==

Traditionally the Linux Foundation organizes the Embedded Linux Conference -- one in North America (ELC) and one in Europe (ELCE). The Yocto Project often has a considerable presence at these events in the form of:
* talks submitted/presented about The Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, and related technologies including a community BoF (Birds of a Feather) session
* a 1-day pre-event OpenEmbedded Developers Day (OEDAM [OpenEmbedded Developers Americas Meeting] for ELC and OEDEM [OpenEmbedded Developers European Meeting] for ELCE)
* a 1-day post-event DevDay
* a conference booth in the ELC/ELCE event hall, usually with demos

The ELC/ELCE events are often co-located with other LF-related events such as: the Linux Security Summit, Zephyr Summit, KVM Forum, Open Source Summit, etc… Starting around 2019, in an effort to better align some of these events, the early Embedded Linux Conference started moving later in the year, closing the gap between the ELC event and the ELCE event towards the end of the year and expanding the gap between the ELCE event and the ELC event. As a result there has been efforts to add YP/OE-specific events earlier in the year in order to maintain the roughly 6-month gap between events.

=== OE Developers Meeting ===
The OpenEmbedded Developers {Americas|European} Meeting is a 1-day event, organized by the OpenEmbedded members, for an informal, free-form round-table-style discussion of core issues of concern to core OE/YP developers, BSP maintainers, etc

=== DevDay ===
DevDay is a 1-day training event consisting of multiple tracks:
* a full-day beginners tutorial to get newcomers up-to-speed on basic YP/OE usage
* hands-on classes based on narrow topics of a more specialized nature

== Events ==
future events:
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/YoctoProject_Summit_May2021 Yocto Project Summit May 2021]

past events:
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/YP_DevDay_Austin_2020 DevDay Austin 2020]
* [https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/open-embedded-summit-0 OE Summit @ SCaLE 17x 2019]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_San_Diego_2019 DevDay San Diego 2019]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Edinburgh_2018 DevDay Edinburgh 2018]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Portland_2018 DevDay Portland 2018]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Prague_2017 DevDay Prague 2017]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_US_2017 DevDay US 2017]

For a list of YP/OE-related talks at ELC/ELCE see:
* [https://elinux.org/Buildsystems https://elinux.org/Buildsystems]

2021-05-13T19:43:32Z

Trevor Woerner: /* Yocto Project Conferences */

YoctoProjectEvents

2021-05-13T19:18:45Z

Trevor Woerner: initial commit

== Yocto Project Conferences ==

Traditionally the Linux Foundation organizes the Embedded Linux Conference -- one in North America (ELC) and one in Europe (ELCE). The Yocto Project often has a considerable presence at these events in the form of:
* talks submitted/presented about The Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, and related technologies
* a 1-day pre-event OpenEmbedded Developers Day (OEDAM [OpenEmbedded Developers Americas Meeting] for ELC and OEDEM [OpenEmbedded Developers European Meeting] for ELCE)
* a 1-day post-event DevDay

=== OE Developers Meeting ===
The OpenEmbedded Developers {Americas|European} Meeting is a 1-day event, organized by the OpenEmbedded members, for an informal, free-form round-table-style discussion of core issues of concern to core OE/YP developers, BSP maintainers, etc

=== DevDay ===
DevDay is a 1-day training event consisting of multiple tracks:
* a full-day beginners tutorial to get newcomers up-to-speed on basic YP/OE usage
* hands-on classes based on narrow topics of a more specialized nature

== Events ==
future events:
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/YoctoProject_Summit_May2021 Yocto Project Summit May 2021]

past events:
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/YP_DevDay_Austin_2020 DevDay Austin 2020]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_San_Diego_2019 DevDay San Diego 2019]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Edinburgh_2018 DevDay Edinburgh 2018]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Portland_2018 DevDay Portland 2018]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_Prague_2017 DevDay Prague 2017]
* [https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/DevDay_US_2017 DevDay US 2017]

2020-04-30T18:30:55Z

Trevor Woerner: /* Candidate Criteria */

= Yocto Project Season of Docs =

==About==
The [http://yoctoproject.org Yocto Project] is an open-source project that delivers a set of tools that create operating system images for embedded Linux systems. The Yocto Project tools are based on the [http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenEmbedded] (OE) project, which uses the BitBake build tool, to construct complete Linux images. BitBake and OE are combined to form a reference build host known as Poky which includes the following [[Core Components|core components]]. This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZpKM7i5Z4 video] will help explain what it's all about.

Richard Purdie, the Yocto Project's lead developer and Linux Foundation Fellow, considers documentation to be one of the cornerstones of this project. The quality and breadth of the documentation is one of the aspects of the project which is appreciated by and commented upon by our users. One of the very first members of that team to work on what became the Yocto Project 10 years ago was Scott Rifenbark, the project's tech writer. Sadly, Scott passed away early this year. The project is therefore at a cross roads with its documentation and with a need of new contributors and with that, the potential for new ideas and direction.

Creating images and GNU/Linux-based distributions takes a wide breadth of knowledge. Even a simple and small image is the combination of dozens of individual software components, each of which has its own quirks and configurations. Each software component is free to choose whatever build system suits its developers, often with little regard for issues concerning cross-compilation. Users who are new to The Yocto Project, and especially new to image creation, are often overwhelmed by its necessary size and scope. Good, comprehensive documentation has always been at the core of The Yocto Project for both new and seasoned users alike.

The Yocto Project hopes it will be successful in its bid for GSoD. But moreover is hoping to find the right person who will stay on with the project for years to come.

==Google Season of Docs==
The Yocto Project is applying to the 2020 Google Season of Docs campaign. The deadline for the application is May 4th, 2020, and the results will be announced on May 11th, 2020. See https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs for additional information about this project.

The following mailing list was created to discuss about the Season of Docs project: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/season-of-docs/.

==Candidate Criteria==

* excellent written command of the English language
* you have experience as a writer, preferably writing technical documentation
* able to distill "geek gobbledygook" into simple and understandable prose
* knowledge of and the ability to use various writing tools and schemes (sgml, xml, sphinx, etc)
* ability to draw simple but meaningful diagrams, and incorporate them into your writing
* strong ability to work with and use the Linux command-line
* it would be very beneficial for this role to know how to use git, at least at a basic level
* a "nice to have" skill would be the ability to read, run, and understand short snippets of python3 and shell code
* another "nice to have" skill would be the ability to run different Linux distros (e.g. Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu) in virtual environments
* willingness to hang out in the #yocto channel on freenode's irc server

==Ideas==

===Format Overhaul===
Currently the project's documentation is written in docbook, which is a natural choice for a documentation writer, but less so for, say, a developer. To make it as easy as possible for everyone to contribute to the documentation going forward, it would be a good time to convert the raw format of the documentation into a more modern format that is easier to learn. Hopefully this will encourage people who don't usually write project documentation to submit patches and updates. An experimentation has started to evaluate using Sphinx, see https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12970. In particular, there is significant potential to improve the way different versions of the manuals for different releases is handled and displayed to users through the website as what is there today is not working for users.

===One Voice===
Previously the project's documentation was written with one voice. Contributors would suggest updates, and Scott would make sure the flow had a certain uniformity; as though it had all been written in one go, by one person. Moving forward, it's likely the project's documentation updates will likely come from many contributors. It would be great to have someone review the current documentation and future updates with an eye towards maintaining one voice. The project has no documentation of the style of the documentation so establishing some written guidelines for that 'voice' may be part of this too.

===Organization===
Currently the project's documentation is spread out in several places and formats. There are a number of manuals, some tutorials, a collection of wiki pages, and more. It would be great to see all this information collected together and organized in such a way as to make it easier for people new or experienced with the project to find exactly what they're looking for, quickly. Classify all existing documentation according to various attributes to identify areas that have weak or missing documentation. Fill any gaps in the documentation by creating new docs targeting specific users, tasks, or experience levels; or help motivate the right people to help generate the content. Work with the project's webmaster to present a unified location for all documentation.

===Tips and Tricks===
The project started a [[TipsAndTricks]] project which generated a significant amount of ideas and the start of content which it would be great to turn into sections in the manuals and better document some of these topics. Since the manual sections were never generated, the project stalled but could be restarted and the community would be keen to help with content and ideas.

===Update/Release Process===
Currently the documentation generation and updating process is quite manual. We believe that integration into our CI and release process is desirable and would be the best way to handle this going forward.

===How-to/Tasks Documentation===
There was work started to convert some of the manual to a more task oriented/'how-to' approach. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11630 has some details but there is potential to significantly expand the task information. It would be great to see the manuals reach this goal of having a much more complete "how-to" task section.