Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Jeff Osier-Mixon]

In the excitement for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, Yocto
Project Developer Day, and our 1.5 release, one important item was
missed.

On October 25, 2010, the Yocto Project launched with the release 0.9.
That means that three weeks ago, we had our 3rd birthday, now with
thousands of active users, 16 member organizations, and an extremely
strong ecosystem and community of people working together to make
embedded Linux better.

Happy birthday, Yocto Project!

-- 
Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org

Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Chris Tapp]

On 14 Nov 2013, at 22:40, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:

> In the excitement for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, Yocto
> Project Developer Day, and our 1.5 release, one important item was
> missed.
> 
> On October 25, 2010, the Yocto Project launched with the release 0.9.
> That means that three weeks ago, we had our 3rd birthday, now with
> thousands of active users, 16 member organizations, and an extremely
> strong ecosystem and community of people working together to make
> embedded Linux better.
> 
> Happy birthday, Yocto Project!


Good point, and I would like to take this opportunity to say a big "Thank You" to all those involved.

This project shows that OpenSource really does work :-)

Chris Tapp

opensource@keylevel.com
www.keylevel.com

Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Robert P. J. Day]

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

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Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Philip Balister]

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

Philip

Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Jeff Osier-Mixon]

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



-- 
Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org

Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Nicolas Dechesne]

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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:09 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 know we've all forgotten the exact date :), but this is the best I
> could find.
>

hmm. it looks like the SVN 'r1' corresponds to this commit in the bitbake
git:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=d91e57c44e923b6b65396515ff878199d43763a1

(I diff'd them)

However in the bitbake git there are older commits before the initial 'SVN'
import. In fact there are commits before this one on 2004/12/7:

 $ git log --oneline d91e57c44e923b6b65396515ff878199d43763a1 | wc -l
726

and the first commit in git is:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=af645b03b585a9c92dc111188756b8f6badfec5f

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

    .oe file parser function

so technically, we missed the 10th anniversary earlier this year ;-)

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Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Mark Hatle]

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


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

Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Mark Hatle]

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
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Chris Larson]

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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>wrote:

> 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.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjCkwYM6wjBQdGx6Umt2cjBETjNsS09CUFNxRUwzVEE
has
some dates I started to gather years ago, in case it’s at all of use.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

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Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Philip Balister]

On 11/15/2013 03:44 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjCkwYM6wjBQdGx6Umt2cjBETjNsS09CUFNxRUwzVEE
> has
> some dates I started to gather years ago, in case it’s at all of use.

Thanks Chris!

So should we use 1/22/2003 as the founding, or maybe 2/23/2003?

We can arrange a celebration of the 11'th birthday at any rate.

Philip

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