[yocto] <rant>the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless</rant>

[Brian Duffy]

No, an FAQ should not get you the expertise to create a commercial grade
product. Reading the documentation should though. You don't want users to
have to study source code.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com
> wrote:

> On 26/06/12 17:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   and if you want major industry players to take yocto seriously, the
> > last thing you want to do is answer their heartfelt pleas for
> > assistance with, "i'm sorry, that's technically not a yocto question,
> > you should try another mailing list."
>
> That's never been case on this list as far as I recall, folk here are
> pretty responsive to questions being asked.
>
> At the same time, OE/Poky/Yocto is a fairly complex framework and nobody
> should expect that the necessary expertize to build a commercial grade
> products with it can be acquired by simply reading a FAQ, no matter how
> well written, or by just endlessly asking questions on a mailing list.
> As a commercial player you are either prepared to make the in house
> investment that is necessary to acquire that expertize (reading the
> documentation and studying the source code, etc.), or you you can buy
> the expertize on commercial basis from someone who has it.
>
> Tomas
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