We're happy for people to experiment with Poky and there are a number of places to find help if you run into difficulties or find bugs. To find out how to download source code see the Obtaining Poky section of the Introduction.

Problems with Poky should be reported using the Bugzilla application at .

To subscribe to the mailing lists click on the following URLs and follow the instructions: for a Yocto Discussions mailing list. for a Poky Discussions mailing list. for a mailing list to receive offical Yocto Project announcements for developments and milestones.

Two IRC channels on freenode are available for Yocto Project and Poky discussions: #yocto #poky

The Yocto Project website - The home site for Yocto Project. OpenedHand - The original company behind Poky. Intel Corporation - The company who acquired OpenedHand in 2008. OpenEmbedded - The upstream generic embedded distribution Poky derives from (and contributes to). Bitbake - The tool used to process Poky metadata. BitBake User Manual - A comprehensive guide to the BitBake tool. Pimlico - A suite of lightweight Personal Information Management (PIM) applications designed primarily for handheld and mobile devices. QEMU - An open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

Contributions to Poky are very welcome. Patches should be sent to the Poky mailing list along with a Signed-off-by: line in the same style as the Linux kernel. Adding this line signifies the developer has agreed to the Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1: Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it. (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved. A Poky contributions tree (poky-contrib, git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib.git) exists for people to stage contributions in, for regular contributors. If people desire such access, please ask on the mailing list. Usually access will be given to anyone with a proven track record of good patches.