Add chapter for newib build in RTEMS Docs

[Vaibhav Gupta]

Well I have no problem in working on standalone guide or adding it to
Software Engineering Manual. I saw that most of the development related
work,
even about patches, were in User Manual, so I proposed it at first place.

- Vaibhav

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:40 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 13/09/2019 03:34, Chris Johns wrote:
> > On 13/9/19 8:42 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 2:09 PM Gedare Bloom<gedare at rtems.org>  wrote:
> >>> Hello Vaibhav,
> >>>
> >>> It would be nice to provide such documentation, but I don't know that
> >>> we have an existing location that would be an ideal fit. I think the
> >>> topic is out of scope for User Manual. If you are motivated to write
> >>> something though, you could prepare it first as a standalone guide.
> >> If we have a name for the document like "Maintainers Guide" or
> something,
> >> it could have a focus on procedures that only core developers would
> need.
> >>
> >> + bootstrapping newlib and building it independently
> >> + modifying gcc, running tests,
> >> + submitting Coverity runs
> >> + running Doxygen
> >> + ...
> > These are all valid and important however can these reside in the
> Software
> > Engineering manual?
> >
> > We current have ...
> >
> >   1. RTEMS Software Engineering
> >   2. RTEMS Filesystem Design Guide
> >   3. RTEMS Development Environment Guide
> >   4. RTEMS BSP and Driver Guide
> >
> > plus 'RTEMS BSP and Driver Guide' which I am not sure about. All these
> cover
> > some aspect of maintaining and developing RTEMS. Should we be considering
> > consolidation rather than expansion?
>
> Yes, we should definitely aim to consolidate the documentation set and
> not add new documents. I would put this topic into the RTEMS Software
> Engineering.
>
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