Mailing Lists and Chat

The Yocto Project® has a friendly community providing informal support and discussion, and we welcome your contributions in our mailing lists and IRC channels. You can click one of the links below to sign up for a particular list. All lists are publicly archived.

For more information about how to participate in these discussions (and what not to do), you should read our Community Guidelines.

Technical Mailing Lists

General Lists

• Yocto Project Discussions (yocto): Discussion with Yocto Project developers – start here with general questions (Archives / Public Inbox).
• Yocto Project Announcements (yocto-announce): Announcements of project developments and milestones. Low traffic.
• Yocto Project Status (yocto-status): Weekly status report and high level overview relevant information. Low traffic.
• OpenEmbedded Architecture (openembedded-architecture): Discussions about overall OpenEmbedded Architecture and Status

Project-Specific Lists

• Yocto Patches (yocto-patches): Patch submission and discussion for Yocto-related projects which don’t have their own mailing list or other patch submission process.
• OpenEmbedded Core Developers (OE-Core): Developer discussions about the openembedded-core layer (Archives / Public Inbox). *
• OpenEmbedded Developers (OE): Developer discussions about meta-openembedded, a collection of layers for OE-core (Archives / Public Inbox). *
• BitBake Developers: Developer discussions about BitBake (Archives / Public Inbox). *
• Poky Discussions (Poky): Developer discussions about the Poky Reference System.
• Toaster: Discussion surrounding use and development of the web based interface for BitBake, formerly webhob (Archives / Public Inbox)
• Automated Testing: Automated testing discussion list.
• Security: Security discussion list.

* The Yocto Project shares maintainership of the OpenEmbedded Core and BitBake components with the OpenEmbedded Project.

BSP and Layer-specific Lists

• Linux-Yocto: Discussion list for the linux-yocto layer, which hosts a tested Linux kernel.
• Meta-Amd: Discussion list for the meta-amd layer covering AMD architectures
• Meta-Arm: Discussion list for the meta-arm layer covering ARM architectures (Archives / Public Inbox).
• Meta-Freescale: Discussion list for the meta-freescale layer covering Freescale architectures (Archives / Public Inbox).
• Meta-Intel: Discussion list for the meta-intel layer covering Intel architectures.
• Meta-Ti: Discussion list for the meta-ti layer covering Texas Instruments architectures.
• Meta-Virtualization: Discsussion list for the meta-virtualization layer enabling hypervisor, virtualization tool stack, and cloud support (Archives / Public Inbox)
• Meta-Xilinx: Discussion list for the meta-xilinx layer.

Special Interest Lists

• Yocto Project Documentation (Docs): Discussion of all things documentation and collaboration on the patches to the docs (Archives / Public Inbox).
• Licensing: Discussion of licensing and legal topics.

Administrative Mailing Lists

• Advocacy (Yocto-Advocacy): List for the Yocto Project Advocacy working group. This list is for Advisory Board members who work on events and other forms of project advocacy and outreach.
• Infrastructure Interest Group (Yocto-Infrastructure): List for the Yocto Project Infrastructure working group. Not limited to Advisory Board members.
• BSP Interest Group (Yocto-Bsp): BSP interest group, for those creating BSPs.

For more information about how to participate in these discussions (and what not to do), you should read our Community Guidelines.

IRC Channel

The Yocto Project has a friendly community providing informal support and discussion, and we welcome your contributions in our mailing lists and IRC channel. The #yocto IRC channel is available on the Libera.chat IRC network. You can join #yocto using an IRC client connected to irc.libera.chat using the instructions from this page, or you can join #yocto using the Libera.chat web interface.

On IRC, you can chat with the Yocto Project development team and community. This is a good way to get immediate help or answers to quick questions; If nobody is awake on the channel, send your question to the Yocto Project mailing lists.

IRC Logs are available here and here.

Matrix Channel

The Yocto Project community can also be found on the Open Matrix Network, in the dedicated room called #yoctoproject:matrix.org, which can be accessed using this link. Note that this Matrix room is not bridged to the #yocto channel on Libera.chat and is far less populated than IRC.