Yocto Project Documentation migration to Sphinx
10-30, 19:15–19:45 (Europe/Dublin), Intermediate Room

Overview of the migration from DocBook to Sphinx for the Yocto Project documentation.


The Yocto Project Documentation has recently migrated from DocBook to Sphinx. This presentation will describe why and how the decision was made, and how the conversion was implemented. We will also review the new website for Yocto Project documentation which was setup during the migration. Finally, we will provide some tips on how to get contribute to the Sphinx based documentation.

See also: Presentation slides (1.9 MB)

Nicolas is working for Linaro and manages a team of developers focused on improving the state of Qualcomm chipset in upstream Linux. He maintains an OpenEmbedded BSP layer for Qualcomm chipset. When Nicolas joined Linaro he led a team of developers who designed and implemented the migration of Comcast RDK to OpenEmbedded using the best practices from the Yocto Project. Before Linaro, Nicolas worked at Texas Instruments as a software developer and manager in the OMAP organization. Since 2018 Nicolas has accepted to become the Community Manager for the Yocto Project.