Re: Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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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