From f7d2cea75598fbcd49dc900d5bea7eec668f6302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:05:30 -0600 Subject: dev-manual: Review comments added to "Working in Team" section Fixes YOCTO #3274 Applied several recommended changes for the section describing best practices when using YP in a team enviornment. these changes were from Dave Stewart. (From yocto-docs rev: 7efc9864dc6757e3cf5c026f3c1785e5947cbfec) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml') diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml index abf0890d65..4d99e39530 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Systems across a large team should meet the needs of - two types of developers: those working on the direction of the - software stack itself and those developing applications. + two types of developers: those working on the contents of the + operating system image itself and those developing applications. Regardless of the type of developer, their workstations must be both reasonably powerful and run Linux. @@ -131,8 +131,11 @@ build system itself available on the developer workstations so developers can run their own builds and directly rebuild the software stack. - You should keep the core system standard as much as + You should keep the core system unchanged as much as possible and do your work in layers on top of the core system. + Doing so gives you a greater level of portability when + upgrading to new versions of the core system or Board + Support Packages (BSPs). You can share layers amongst the developers of a particular project and contain the policy configuration that defines the project. @@ -357,14 +360,17 @@ Git repositories. Set up the directory for the shared state cache (SSTATE_DIR) - where they make sense. - For example, set up the sstate cache for developers using the - same office and share source directories on the developer's - machines. + where it makes sense. + For example, set up the sstate cache on a system used + by developers that share the same office and share the + same source directories on their machines. + Set up an autobuilder and have it populate the sstate cache and source directories. - Follow the project commit guidelines for - writing good commit messages. + The Yocto Project community encourages you + to send patches to the project to fix bugs or add features. + If you do submit patches, follow the project commit + guidelines for writing good commit messages. See the "How to Submit a Change" section. Send changes to the core sooner than later -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf