Thank you all so much for having us. I learned so much about embedded linux and the Yocto Project in a very short while. I can't wait to start working with you and on my project.
Cheers, Ida. On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 8:47 am Nicolas Dechesne, <nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > We are very excited to be part of the Outreachy program again for the > December round this year, let me congratulate Ida and Dorinda for > being accepted as interns for the next three months. > > I want to give a warm thank you to our mentors as well, Paul, Ross, > Tim. Without mentors there isn't much we can do, so this is very much > appreciated. A big thank you to Microsoft and Arm who are sponsoring > the internships. > > Ida and Dorinda will engage on the following topics: > > == Enhance Yocto Project License Tracing > The Yocto Project build system is typically used to build customised > Linux images from source for embedded applications. Along with the > image, a manifest of packages and their corresponding licenses is > prepared, however the accuracy of the license information in the > manifest is dependent on the accuracy of the metadata we have for each > package (i.e. what is in the recipe file). As part of the build, we > have an internal mapping from output files to source files which is > currently used to prepare source packages to aid in debugging, however > with the increasing presence of SPDX headers in source files it could > also be used to allow tracing the license of sources used in building > a package/image to help improve our metadata and future license > manifests. > > == Add support for elfutils debug info server" > The Yocto Project build system is typically used to build customised > Linux images from source for embedded applications. debuginfod (part > of elfutils 0.178 onwards) is a way to share debuginfo files, which > provide debugging symbols for gdb to enable it to debug a running > program on a target device. Users of the Yocto Project would benefit > from integrating support for debuginfod such that binaries in an image > produced by the Yocto Project build system could be debugged more > easily. > > Ida and Dorinda, welcome into our open source community, you can count > on everyone's support during your internship! > > cheers > nico >
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