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 CF476E01618 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:07:11 -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 rAFK7BQl004818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:07:11 -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 12:07:11 -0800 Message-ID: <52867EEE.8050604@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:07:10 -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: Yocto Project References: <52859082.1030805@balister.org> <52867BDF.2090705@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <52867BDF.2090705@windriver.com> 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 20:07:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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 Never thought to look at the Bitbake repository.. first commit: commit af645b03b585a9c92dc111188756b8f6badfec5f Author: Chris Larson 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 >> >> >> >