[oe] OE/Yocto developer survey

[Chris Morgan]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Cliff Brake <cbrake at bec-systems.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get some feedback on the following questions -- feel free
> to respond to list, or directly to me, and I'll withhold your
> name/company from any results.
>
> I would like to collect feedback until 2015-11-02, and will summarize
> the results after that.
>
> My goal with this survey is to get a sense for best practices and what
> is most commonly used among Yocto/OE developers so I can better advise
> clients using Yocto/OE.  Hopefully this will also generate some
> interesting discussions.
>
> How long have you been using OE?  3 years_____
>
> How do you use OE/Yocto?
> [x] product development
> [  ] hobby/research/education/yocto core developer, etc
>
> What distro do you use?
> [ ] Poky
> [  ] Angstrom
> [ x ] nodistro or custom (based on poky)
>
> How do you organize multiple git repos?
> [x] Git submodules
> [  ] Repo
> [  ] Other
>
> What packaging system?
> [  ] OPKG
> [  ] RPM
> [x] Other (none, just a single output fs)
>
> What GUI toolkits?
> [ x ] Qt
> [  ] Gtk
> [  ] EFL
> [  ] HTML5/JS
> [  ] Other
>
> What init system?
> [ x ] systemd
> [  ] sysvinit
> [  ] busybox init
> [  ] Other
>
> What libc?
> [ x ] glibc (I think, we don't appear to override DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC)
> [  ] uclibc
> [  ] musl
> [  ] Other
>
> How do you develop custom applications?
> [  ] application-SDK
> [  ] devshell
> [ x ] develop on PC, test on target
> [  ] Other
>
> What language do you primarily use for custom applications?
> [ x ] C
> [ x ] C++
> [  ] Python
> [  ] Javascript
> [  ] Lua
> [  ] Other
>
> What do you use for Continuous Integration?
> [ x ] Buildbot
> [  ] Jenkins
> [  ] Other
>
> Do you use any any of the tooling projects
> (https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects) such as ADT,
> Hob, Toaster, etc?
>
> _______________________
>
> Reasons or explanations are appreciated, and please feel free to
> include additional choices/information you think are relevant.
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff


Company name currently withheld. Yocto being used to build the
software image for a consumer hardware product.

Chris