From 28249c42701f9156a0b3153d72d7e46dacab37cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leonardo Sandoval Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 08:10:43 -0700 Subject: README: new readme file including main aspects of the project Includes brief description of the project, pointers to website, documentation, mailing list and source code. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Sandoval Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- README | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..479c37658 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Bitbake +======= + +BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run +efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. +One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software +stacks using a task-oriented approach. + +For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: + http://www.openembedded.org/ + +Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated +html version at the Yocto Project website: + http://yoctoproject.org/documentation + +Contributing +------------ + +Please refer to +http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded +for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended +for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org) +but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send +the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current +branch, type: + + git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org + +Mailing list: + + http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel + +Source code: + + http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/ -- cgit 1.2.3-korg