Where do you put stuff?

There are a lot of ways to organize product development information.

You could do something like:

• productA
  • firmware
  • hardware
  • yocto-build
  • docs
  • manufacturing
• productB
  • firmware
  • hardware
  • yocto-build
  • docs
  • manufacturing

The above is nice in that it keeps all the stuff for each product together, but discourages re-use between projects.

If you want to build a platform, then it may make more sense to do something like this:

• Firmware
  • Boards
    • productA
    • productB
  • Apps
  • Common
• Hardware
  • Part Libs
  • productA
  • productB
• Yocto
  • ...
• Manufacturing
  • Common testing framework
• Product
  • productA
  • productB
• Doc
  • (general technology information)
  • (general processes, etc)

Each type of code/design files live in a common location if possible. The Product location is only for information that is truly unique to a specific product (documentation, top-level BOMs, etc) that does not fit anywhere else. In many cases, each of the top level categories are a separate repo. The Product repo may pull the other repos in as submodules, so you can version everything together.

If you want to build a platform, it helps to be intentional about this. Reuse and cross-product learning won't just happen.