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+<section id='yocto-project-repositories'>
+    <title>Yocto Project Source Repositories</title>
+
+    <para>
+        The Yocto Project team maintains complete source repositories for all
+        Yocto Project files at
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit/cgit.cgi'></ulink>.
+        This web-based source code browser is organized into categories by
+        function such as IDE Plugins, Matchbox, Poky, Yocto Linux Kernel, and
+        so forth.
+        From the interface, you can click on any particular item in the "Name"
+        column and see the URL at the bottom of the page that you need to clone
+        a Git repository for that particular item.
+        Having a local Git repository of the
+        <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>, which is
+        usually named "poky", allows
+        you to make changes, contribute to the history, and ultimately enhance
+        the Yocto Project's tools, Board Support Packages, and so forth.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+        For any supported release of Yocto Project, you can also go to the
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink> and
+        select the "Downloads" tab and get a released tarball of the
+        <filename>poky</filename> repository or any supported BSP tarballs.
+        Unpacking these tarballs gives you a snapshot of the released
+        files.
+        <note><title>Notes</title>
+            <itemizedlist>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    The recommended method for setting up the Yocto Project
+                    <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>
+                    and the files for supported BSPs
+                    (e.g., <filename>meta-intel</filename>) is to use
+                    <link linkend='git'>Git</link> to create a local copy of
+                    the upstream repositories.
+                    </para></listitem>
+                <listitem><para>
+                    Be sure to always work in matching branches for both
+                    the selected BSP repository and the
+                    <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>
+                    (i.e. <filename>poky</filename>) repository.
+                    For example, if you have checked out the "master" branch
+                    of <filename>poky</filename> and you are going to use
+                    <filename>meta-intel</filename>, be sure to checkout the
+                    "master" branch of <filename>meta-intel</filename>.
+                    </para></listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+        </note>
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+        In summary, here is where you can get the project files needed for
+        development:
+        <itemizedlist>
+            <listitem><para id='source-repositories'>
+                <emphasis>
+                <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit/cgit.cgi'>Source Repositories:</ulink>
+                </emphasis>
+                This area contains IDE Plugins, Matchbox, Poky, Poky Support,
+                Tools, Yocto Linux Kernel, and Yocto Metadata Layers.
+                You can create local copies of Git repositories for each of
+                these areas.</para>
+
+                <para>
+                <imagedata fileref="figures/source-repos.png" align="center" width="6in" depth="4in" />
+                </para></listitem>
+            <listitem><para><anchor id='index-downloads' />
+                <emphasis>
+                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DL_URL;/releases/'>Index of /releases:</ulink>
+                </emphasis>
+                This is an index of releases such as
+                the <trademark class='trade'>Eclipse</trademark>
+                Yocto Plug-in, miscellaneous support, Poky, Pseudo, installers
+                for cross-development toolchains, and all released versions of
+                Yocto Project in the form of images or tarballs.
+                Downloading and extracting these files does not produce a local
+                copy of the Git repository but rather a snapshot of a
+                particular release or image.</para>
+
+                <para>
+                <imagedata fileref="figures/index-downloads.png" align="center" width="6in" depth="3.5in" />
+                </para></listitem>
+            <listitem><para>
+                <emphasis>"Downloads" page for the
+                <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink>:
+                </emphasis>
+                Access this page by going to the website and then selecting
+                the "Downloads" tab.
+                This page allows you to download any Yocto Project
+                release or Board Support Package (BSP) in tarball form.
+                The tarballs are similar to those found in the
+                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DL_URL;/releases/'>Index of /releases:</ulink> area.</para>
+
+                <para>
+                <imagedata fileref="figures/yp-download.png" align="center" width="6in" depth="4in" />
+                </para></listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+</section>
+
 <section id="development-concepts">
     <title>Development Concepts</title>