From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SDZg5-00026v-VC for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:07:34 +0200 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 Mar 2012 03:58:28 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="125200005" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.123.235]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 Mar 2012 03:58:27 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:58:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4168578.1W8W6pNbK1@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.0.0-17-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.1; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: why i'm being so annoyingly pedantic about nitpicky details X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:07:34 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday 30 March 2012 06:31:39 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i realize many of my questions are and will be spectacularly > nitpicky but the motivation here is that i and a buddy of mine from > wind river are going to be submitting a proposal to this year's ottawa > linux symposium for a 1/2-day tutorial on OE/bitbake/yocto, so i want > to make absolutely sure i'm clear on the fundamentals and can explain > the contents and mechanics of any part of OE. which means i have a > lot of work to do in the next little while. > > in other words, there will be more pedantry, but the end result will > be released as cc-by-sa, so consider it an investment. :-) I would say please don't stop doing what you're doing. We may sound impatient in our replies sometimes but I think what you are doing is really valuable - there are some inconsistencies in our documentation and our metadata and we ought to get them all ironed out. I guess the only difficult thing at this precise point in time is that a lot of us are busy with stabilisation work, thus we might not have as much time to sort these things out or even respond fully to your queries as we would like. If anything doesn't get fixed (particularly in the metadata) we should definitely try to make sure it gets addressed during the next development cycle. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre