Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 11/14/13, 9:58 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
> Hm, a day that will live in infamy indeed
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Philip Balister <philip@balister.org> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2013 08:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Happy birthday, Yocto Project!
>>>
>>>    what's a birthday without cake?
>>>
>>> http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Cake/
>>>
>>> rday
>>>
>>
>> Berlios suggests bitbake was born on Dec 7, 2004. So in a few weeks we
>> will celebrate the 9'th birthday of the OpenEmbedded build system.

I found a presentation that seems to have a bit more history in it.

OpenEmbedded & BitBake - Denx.
www.denx.de/wiki/pub/ELDKHistory/.../OpenEmbeddedv1.ppt‎
December 2004: OpenEmbedded is split up into the BitBake build system and the 
OpenEmbedded metadata. OpenZaurus. OpenEmbedded is the successor to  ..

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CE0QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denx.de%2Fwiki%2Fpub%2FELDKHistory%2FDocumentationLinks%2FOpenEmbeddedv1.ppt&ei=n3eGUseFHKyh4APFs4CgBQ&usg=AFQjCNGZtQsaGso-YaqLYSlOJaJfhDiaug&sig2=JzdEhA4q-4bhBDhE1NOxMQ&bvm=bv.56643336,d.dmg

2001: Sharp introducestheSL-5000 PDA running Linux

2002: Chris Larson finds out that the SharpROM sucks and starts hacking on a 
build system for a customized Linux distribution called "OpenZaurus”

2002-2003: The OpenZaurus build system is getting stretched (beyond belief) by 
adding support for many more packages and target devices

January 2003: Brainstorming towards a new distribution and device independent 
build system

February 2003: Holger Schurig creates the OpenEmbedded repository and starts 
hacking on the first version

May 2003: Chris Larson adds major functionality to the OpenEmbedded core and 
starts converting packages from the OpenZaurus build system

December 2003: Michael Lauer releases OpenZaurus3.3.5, abandons the OpenZaurus 
build system, and converts100s of packages to OpenEmbedded

December 2004: OpenEmbedded is split up into the BitBake build system and the 
OpenEmbedded metadata

So the magic Dec 7 2004 date is the split of OpenEmbedded into bitbake and the 
'metadata'.  the actual work was almost 20 months prior.

The sourceforge openembedded project was registerd 2003-01-21:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openembedded/

Also I found a repository that appears it may contain the original 
OpenEmbedded..  first commit is:

Author: Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 2 21:19:02 2003 +0000

     Initial repository create

     BKrev: 3edbbf46Zm7UJzG9iGisj7ELSsUuZQ


>> I know we've all forgotten the exact date :), but this is the best I
>> could find.
>>
>> Philip
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