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[<!ENTITY % poky SYSTEM "../poky.ent"> %poky; ] >
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<chapter id='resources'>
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-<title>Contributing to the Yocto Project</title>
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+<title>Contributions and Additional Information</title>
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<section id='resources-intro'>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>
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- The Yocto Project team is happy for people to experiment with the Yocto Project.
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- A number of places exist to find help if you run into difficulties or find bugs.
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- To find out how to download source code,
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- see the "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#local-yp-release'>Yocto Project Release</ulink>"
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+ The Yocto Project team is happy for people to experiment with the
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+ Yocto Project.
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+ A number of places exist to find help if you run into difficulties
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+ or find bugs.
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+ This presents information about contributing and participating in
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+ the Yocto Project.
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+ </para>
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+</section>
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+
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+<section id='resources-contributions'>
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+ <title>Contributions</title>
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+
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+ <para>
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+ The Yocto Project gladly accepts contributions.
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+ You can submit changes to the project either by creating and sending
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+ pull requests,
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+ or by submitting patches through email.
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+ For information on how to do both as well as information on how
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+ to identify the maintainer for each area of code, see the
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+ "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#how-to-submit-a-change'>How to Submit a Change</ulink>"
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section in the Yocto Project Development Manual.
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</para>
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</section>
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</para>
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</section>
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-<section id='resources-links'>
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- <title>Links</title>
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+<section id='resources-links-and-related-documentation'>
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+ <title>Links and Related Documentation</title>
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<para>
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- Here is a list of resources you will find helpful:
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+ Here is a list of resources you might find helpful:
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<itemizedlist>
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- <listitem><para><emphasis>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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<ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>The Yocto Project website</ulink>:
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- </emphasis> The home site for the Yocto
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- Project.</para></listitem>
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-<!--
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- <listitem><para><emphasis>
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- <ulink url='http://www.intel.com/'>Intel Corporation</ulink>:</emphasis>
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- The company that acquired OpenedHand in 2008 and began
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- development on the Yocto Project.</para></listitem>
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--->
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- <listitem><para><emphasis>
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- <ulink url='&OE_HOME_URL;'>OpenEmbedded</ulink>:</emphasis>
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- The upstream, generic, embedded distribution used as the basis
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- for the build system in the Yocto Project.
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- Poky derives from and contributes back to the OpenEmbedded
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- project.</para></listitem>
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- <listitem><para><emphasis>
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+ </emphasis> The home site for the Yocto Project.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_WIKI_URL;/wiki/Main_Page'>The Yocto Project Main Wiki Page</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ The main wiki page for the Yocto Project.
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+ This page contains information about project planning,
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+ release engineering, QA & automation, a reference
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+ site map, and other resources related to the Yocto Project.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&OE_HOME_URL;'>OpenEmbedded</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ The build system used by the Yocto Project.
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+ This project is the upstream, generic, embedded distribution
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+ from which the Yocto Project derives its build system (Poky)
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+ and to which it contributes.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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<ulink url='http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/BitBake'>
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- BitBake</ulink>:</emphasis> The tool used to process metadata.</para></listitem>
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+ BitBake</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis> The tool used to process metadata.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;'>BitBake User Manual:</ulink>
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+ </emphasis>
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+ A comprehensive guide to the BitBake tool.
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+ If you want information on BitBake, see this manual.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_QS_URL;'>Yocto Project Quick Start</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This short document lets you get started
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+ with the Yocto Project and quickly begin building an image.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;'>Yocto Project Development Manual</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This manual is a "how-to" guide that presents procedures
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+ useful to both application and system developers who use the
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+ Yocto Project.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_SDK_URL;'>Yocto Project Software Development Kit (SDK) Developer's Guide</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This guide provides information that lets you get going
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+ with the standard or extensible SDK.
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+ An SDK, with its cross-development toolchains, allows you
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+ to develop projects inside or outside of the Yocto Project
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+ environment.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BSP_URL;'>Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This guide defines the structure for BSP components.
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+ Having a commonly understood structure encourages
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+ standardization.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_KERNEL_DEV_URL;'>Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This manual describes how to work with Linux Yocto kernels as
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+ well as provides a bit of conceptual information on the
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+ construction of the Yocto Linux kernel tree.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_PROF_URL;'>Yocto Project Profiling and Tracing Manual</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This manual presents a set of common and generally useful
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+ tracing and profiling schemes along with their applications
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+ (as appropriate) to each tool.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_SDK_URL;#sdk-appendix-latest-yp-eclipse-plug-in'>Eclipse IDE Yocto Plug-in</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ Instructions that demonstrate how an application developer
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+ uses the Eclipse Yocto Project Plug-in feature within
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+ the Eclipse IDE.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_WIKI_URL;/wiki/FAQ'>FAQ</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ A list of commonly asked questions and their answers.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_RELEASE_NOTES;'>Release Notes</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ Features, updates and known issues for the current
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+ release of the Yocto Project.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;/tools-resources/projects/toaster'>Toaster</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ An Application Programming Interface (API) and web-based
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+ interface to the OpenEmbedded build system, which uses
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+ BitBake, that reports build information.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_TOAST_URL;'>Toaster User Manual</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ This manual introduces and describes how to set up and use
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+ Toaster, which is a web interface to the Yocto Project's
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-system-term'>OpenEmbedded Build System</ulink>.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;/tools-resources/projects/build-appliance'>Build Appliance</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ A virtual machine that
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+ enables you to build and boot a custom embedded Linux image
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+ with the Yocto Project using a non-Linux development system.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_BUGZILLA_URL;'>Bugzilla</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ The bug tracking application the Yocto Project uses.
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+ If you find problems with the Yocto Project, you should report
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+ them using this application.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_WIKI_URL;/wiki/Bugzilla_Configuration_and_Bug_Tracking'>Bugzilla Configuration and Bug Tracking Wiki Page</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ Information on how to get set up and use the Yocto Project
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+ implementation of Bugzilla for logging and tracking Yocto
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+ Project defects.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>Internet Relay Chat (IRC):</emphasis>
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+ Two IRC channels on freenode are available
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+ for Yocto Project and Poky discussions: <filename>#yocto</filename> and
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+ <filename>#poky</filename>, respectively.
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+ </para></listitem>
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+ <listitem><para>
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+ <emphasis>
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+ <ulink url='http://wiki.qemu.org/Index.html'>Quick EMUlator (QEMU)</ulink>:
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+ </emphasis>
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+ An open-source machine emulator and virtualizer.
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+ </para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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- For more links, see the
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- "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#other-information'>Other Information</ulink>"
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- section in the Yocto Project Development Manual.
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- </para>
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-</section>
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-
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-<section id='resources-contributions'>
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- <title>Contributions</title>
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-
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- <para>
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- The Yocto Project gladly accepts contributions.
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- You can submit changes to the project either by creating and sending
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- pull requests,
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- or by submitting patches through email.
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- For information on how to do both as well as information on how
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- to identify the maintainer for each area of code, see the
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- "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#how-to-submit-a-change'>How to Submit a Change</ulink>"
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- section in the Yocto Project Development Manual.
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</para>
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</section>
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</chapter>
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