From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7370E015C9 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rAFJs8l7001051 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from Marks-MacBook-Pro.local (172.25.36.226) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.347.0; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:54:07 -0800 Message-ID: <52867BDF.2090705@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:54:07 -0600 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <52859082.1030805@balister.org> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:54:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 11/14/13, 9:58 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: > Hm, a day that will live in infamy indeed > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Philip Balister 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 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 > > >