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.
I'm not particularly concerned about the kernel packages. I think we can ignore it. I'll update my script to not report these recipes.
The main goal is to ensure that man pages and the like are being generated for userspace applications.
Scott
-- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project Intel Open Source Technology Center
