From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [216.168.135.167]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D027E0073F for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2524 invoked by uid 1003); 27 Jun 2012 21:51:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.43.231?) (philip@opensdr.com@32.144.103.169) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 27 Jun 2012 21:51:12 -0000 Message-ID: <4FEB804C.1000106@balister.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:51:08 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <10398861.esnekvBoZU@helios> <4FE9D965.4070906@linux.intel.com> <3153041.1FMPtSpq0x@helios> <4FE9E58C.9020408@r-finger.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:51:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/26/2012 12:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > >> Kooen's cheeky point is worth keeping in mind though; the Yocto >> naming semantics is not very helpful ;-) Specifically most of the >> questions being asked on the Yocto list are about Poky, not Yocto, >> followed by questions about meta-yocto, not Yocto-project. Many of >> the questions being asked on the list are readily answered by >> googling for 'Poky Manual', but clearly very few people understand >> the Yocto project semantics enough to do this ... > > and if you want major industry players to take yocto seriously, the > last thing you want to do is answer their heartfelt pleas for > assistance with, "i'm sorry, that's technically not a yocto question, > you should try another mailing list." > > even if you're technically correct, that sort of conversation is not > going to end well. The number one question I get asked about the Yocto Project (this is from an audience of people in the software radio area) is how the Yocto project relates to OpenEmbedded (and sometimes Angstrom). Having a realy good answer to this on the FAQ would be awesome. Philip PS: Yes, I know this thread is a few days old. I'm on vacation, sue me :)