How would a newcomer get started?

 

Is there an FAQ or Wiki that gives a developer overview of the project, patch 
submission process, etc.?

 

It’s hard to jump on to the moving train…

 

From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On 
Behalf Of Stephen K Jolley
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:50 AM
To: openembedded-c...@lists.openembedded.org; yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: [yocto] (no subject)

 

All,

 

The triage team is starting to try and collect up and classify bugs which a 
newcomer to the project would be able to work on in a way which means people 
can find them. They're being listed on the triage page under the appropriate 
heading:

 

 <https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Newcomer_Bugs> 
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Newcomer_Bugs

 

The idea is these bugs should be straight forward for a person to help work on 
who doesn't have deep experience with the project.  If anyone can help, please 
take ownership of the bug and send patches!  If anyone needs help/advice there 
are people on irc who can likely do so, or some of the more experienced 
contributors will likely be happy to help too.

 

Also, the triage team meets weekly and does its best to handle the bugs 
reported into the Bugzilla. The number of people attending that meeting has 
fallen, as have the number of people available to help fix bugs. One of the 
things we hear users report is they don't know how to help. We (the triage 
team) are therefore going to start reporting out the currently 309 unassigned 
or newcomer bugs.

 

We're hoping people may be able to spare some time now and again to help out 
with these.  Bugs are split into two types, "true bugs" where things don't work 
as they should and "enhancements" which are features we'd want to add to the 
system.  There are also roughly four different "priority" classes right now, 
“2.8”, “2.9’, "2.99" and "Future", the more pressing/urgent issues being in 
"2.8" and then “2.9”.

 

Please review this link and if a bug is something you would be able to help 
with either take ownership of the bug, or send me ( 
<mailto:sjolley.yp...@gmail.com> sjolley.yp...@gmail.com) an e-mail with the 
bug number you would like and I will assign it to you (please make sure you 
have a Bugzilla account).  The list is at:  
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Unassigned_or_Newcomer_Bugs> 
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Unassigned_or_Newcomer_Bugs

 

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Thanks,

 

Stephen K. Jolley

Yocto Project Program Manager

7867 SW Bayberry Dr., Beaverton, OR 97007

*    Cell:                (208) 244-4460

* Email:                 s <mailto:stephen.k.jol...@intel.com> 
jolley.yp...@gmail.com <mailto:jolley.yp...@gmail.com> 

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