[oe] Documentation/User Manual questions

[Theodore A. Roth]

Hi,

In my quest to learn how OE works, I've been reading the Wiki and the
User Manual a lot. I have a few questions to ask.

1: Why is the user manual on a separate branch instead of simply being
part of the org.openembedded.dev branch?

Speaking as a newbie, it would have been nice to have gotten the user
manual automagically when I cloned the git repo. It took me a couple
of weeks to discover where it's source was located since I am also
learning git at the same time. Speaking as developer, having the
documentation as close to the source as possible gives it more
visibility and tends to increase the likelihood of it being kept up to
date.

2: Was the documentation branch really last updated on May 9, 2008? Is
there a newer branch I have not yet discovered?

3: There is a ton of information in the Wiki, but finding what one
needs can be rather tedious if not difficult. Is there any chance of
pulling information from the Wiki into the user manual?

The format of a user manual can make finding information so much more
efficient. A table of contents and a good index can make a newbies
life so much easier.

I would love to step up and take on some of this. My knowledge of OE
is quite limited at the moment, but with some review from the gurus
out there, I think I can remedy that.

Thanks for your time.

Ted Roth