[oe] OE-Core transition documentation

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 04:50:26 UTC 2012


On (21/12/11 15:06), Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It seems we still haven't made an announcement on the website about the OE-
> Core transition. I did write a wiki page about it [1] but never got around to 
> linking it from the main page. What I'd like to do is the following:
> 
> 1) Add a short news entry mentioning the transition and pointing people to the 
> OE-Core page.
> 
> 2) Extend the OE-Core page to help people understand how to make the 
> transition a bit better:
>  * Describe how the mailing lists function
>  * Add info on how to add a layer to your setup
>  * More info on what should go where and what to do if something's missing
> I'm starting to wonder if this page ought to be turned into an FAQ type 
> document.

thanks for looking into it. Yes we need this badly. I think initial part
should also mention stark difference between classic oe and oe core
approach and some light on current and future then how to get started
using oe-core based approach

> 
> 3) Try to figure out how to reorganise the main page so having a link from 
> there to the layer index [2] makes sense
> 

yes that document will be relevant in this context

> Comments? Suggestions? Please let me know if you have questions about OE-Core 
> that aren't fully answered by the material already on the OE-Core / layer 
> index pages.
> 

I think we need to make more and more documents relevant meaning some of
them might need to reflect the oe-core way of doing things.

> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> [1] http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core
> [2] http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
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