From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [216.168.135.167]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8593E015DE for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5654 invoked by uid 1003); 16 Nov 2013 14:42:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.113?) (philip@opensdr.com@108.44.82.190) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 16 Nov 2013 14:42:29 -0000 Message-ID: <52878453.2080809@balister.org> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:42:27 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Larson References: <52859082.1030805@balister.org> <52867BDF.2090705@windriver.com> <52867EEE.8050604@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Cc: Yocto Project 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: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:42:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 11/15/2013 03:44 PM, Chris Larson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark Hatle 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 >>>> 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. > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >