[yocto] Results of latest documentation audit, May 2011

[Darren Hart]

On 05/06/2011 01:29 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As a data point for where we stand in ensuring our packages are 
> producing documentation, I have some scripts which build all recipes 
> (using the output of bitbake -s, not world), and then check that a -doc 
> package is generated which is populated with files.
> 
> A summary of the results using yesterday's master are as follows:
> 
> 591 recipes in total
> 308 recipes are building documentation
> 283 recipes are not building documentation
> 
> 31 recipes did not build (and are counted as not building documentation 
> above).
> 
> The lists of recipes are attached to this email. We'd like to improve 
> the percentage of recipes that produce documentation (separated into 
> -doc packages, of course) for our next major release in October.
> 
> Our userspace recipe maintainers should look into setting aside some 
> time to know which of their recipes are in the "not building 
> documentation" list and work to improve them. A lot of this is likely to 
> be low-hanging fruit.
> 

I see "linux-*" in the list. What sort of documentation are we looking
for? The linux-image* packages in Ubuntu, for example, include a
changelog and a copyright.

Thanks,

--
Darren

> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel