diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
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The Yocto Project Open Source Development Environment
-
- This chapter helps you understand the Yocto Project as an open source development project.
- In general, working in an open source environment is very different from working in a
- closed, proprietary environment.
- Additionally, the Yocto Project uses specific tools and constructs as part of its development
- environment.
- This chapter specifically addresses open source philosophy, using the
- Yocto Project in a team environment, source repositories, Yocto Project
- terms, licensing, the open source distributed version control system Git,
- workflows, bug tracking, and how to submit changes.
-
-
-
- Open Source Philosophy
-
-
- Open source philosophy is characterized by software development directed by peer production
- and collaboration through an active community of developers.
- Contrast this to the more standard centralized development models used by commercial software
- companies where a finite set of developers produces a product for sale using a defined set
- of procedures that ultimately result in an end product whose architecture and source material
- are closed to the public.
-
-
-
- Open source projects conceptually have differing concurrent agendas, approaches, and production.
- These facets of the development process can come from anyone in the public (community) that has a
- stake in the software project.
- The open source environment contains new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues
- that differ from the more traditional development environment.
- In an open source environment, the end product, source material, and documentation are
- all available to the public at no cost.
-
-
-
- A benchmark example of an open source project is the Linux kernel, which was initially conceived
- and created by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds in 1991.
- Conversely, a good example of a non-open source project is the
- Windows family of operating
- systems developed by Microsoft Corporation.
-
-
-
- Wikipedia has a good historical description of the Open Source Philosophy
- here.
- You can also find helpful information on how to participate in the Linux Community
- here.
-
-
-
Using the Yocto Project in a Team Environment
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The Yocto Project Development Environment
+
+ This chapter takes a look at the Yocto Project development
+ environment and also provides a detailed look at what goes on during
+ development in that environment.
+ The chapter provides Yocto Project Development environment concepts that
+ help you understand how work is accomplished in an open source environment,
+ which is very different as compared to work accomplished in a closed,
+ proprietary environment.
+ This chapter specifically addresses open source philosophy, using the
+ Yocto Project in a team environment, source repositories, Yocto Project
+ terms, licensing, the open source distributed version control system Git,
+ workflows, bug tracking, and how to submit changes.
+
+
+
+ Open Source Philosophy
+
- This chapter takes a look at the Yocto Project development
- environment and also provides a detailed look at what goes on during
- development in that environment.
+ Open source philosophy is characterized by software development
+ directed by peer production and collaboration through an active
+ community of developers.
+ Contrast this to the more standard centralized development models
+ used by commercial software companies where a finite set of developers
+ produces a product for sale using a defined set of procedures that
+ ultimately result in an end product whose architecture and source
+ material are closed to the public.
+
+ Open source projects conceptually have differing concurrent agendas,
+ approaches, and production.
+ These facets of the development process can come from anyone in the
+ public (community) that has a stake in the software project.
+ The open source environment contains new copyright, licensing, domain,
+ and consumer issues that differ from the more traditional development
+ environment.
+ In an open source environment, the end product, source material,
+ and documentation are all available to the public at no cost.
+
+
+
+ A benchmark example of an open source project is the Linux kernel,
+ which was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science
+ student Linus Torvalds in 1991.
+ Conversely, a good example of a non-open source project is the
+ Windows family of operating
+ systems developed by
+ Microsoft Corporation.
+
+
+
+ Wikipedia has a good historical description of the Open Source
+ Philosophy
+ here.
+ You can also find helpful information on how to participate in the
+ Linux Community
+ here.
+
+
+