[yocto] Happy Birthday, Yocto Project

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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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