From 1017d2aec8d1b9f296f93242e296c5e303a8c5fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:01:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml: note for maintainer Added a note indicating where you can find the maintainer for yocto code. Suggestion by Robert Berger. (From yocto-docs rev: 8e55cc4c460582964b0267b4f43c14e7100f17fe) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml index b2d801fc2d..eee2b540b1 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml @@ -425,11 +425,14 @@ The Yocto Project files are maintained using Git in a "master" branch whose Git history tracks every change and whose structure provides branches for all diverging functionality. Although there is no need to use Git, many open source projects do so. - For the Yocto Project, a key individual called the "maintainer" is responsible for "master" - branch of the Git repository. + For the Yocto Project, a key individual called the "maintainer" is responsible for the "master" + branch of the Git repository. The "master" branch is the “upstream” repository where the final builds of the project occur. The maintainer is responsible for allowing changes in from other developers and for organizing the underlying branch structure to reflect release strategies and so forth. + You can see who is the maintainer for Yocto Project files by examining the + distro_tracking_fields file in the Yocto Project + meta/conf/distro/include directory.