[bitbake-devel] how much effort is going into updating bitbake user manual?

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

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>devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:31 AM
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>Subject: [bitbake-devel] how much effort is going into updating bitbake user
>manual?

I am working on it in parallel with the YP docs.  It is prioritized no higher or lower.

>
>
>  i ask since i'm teaching an OE/yocto course in a couple weeks, and i want to
>make the bitbake user manual part of the student kit, which is why i'm
>currently clawing my way through it, being pedantic and all and doing lots of
>(admittedly picky) touchups.
>
>  case in point -- there are at least some BB variables that aren't listed in the
>glossary, such as PARALLEL_MAKE. i'm making a list of these, but i know that
>the yocto project also has a massive reference manual which includes a
>variable glossary. so where should i concentrate my efforts? personally, if
>something is BB-specific, i'd rather it go into the BB user manual.

If it is BB-specific then it definitely goes in the BB-manual

>
>  also, what's the timeframe for getting my patches into the repo? the course
>isn't til the week of jul 21-24 so there's lots of time for the patches to be
>applied, it would just be nice to know that they'll be incorporated by the time
>the course starts.

I should have your patches and changes in by end of this week.

>
>  thanks, back to proofreading ...
>
>rday
>
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