Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

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

On 11/15/13, 1:54 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 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 <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

Never thought to look at the Bitbake repository.. first commit:

commit af645b03b585a9c92dc111188756b8f6badfec5f
Author: Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 21 04:03:45 2003 +0000

      .oe file parser function

So I think that Jives with the Approx Feb 2003 timeframe..  and I'd say the code 
birthday then would be Feb 21 2003 -- so in 3 months we're looking at the 12th 
anniversary of Bitbake/OE.

--Mark

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