This chapter takes a look at the Yocto Project development environment and also provides a detailed look at what goes on during development in that environment. The chapter provides Yocto Project Development environment concepts that help you understand how work is accomplished in an open source environment, which is very different as compared to work accomplished in a closed, proprietary environment.

Specifically, this chapter addresses open source philosophy, workflows, Git, source repositories, licensing, recipe syntax, and development syntax.