[U-Boot] Stepping down as sunxi u-boot custodian (for real this time)

[Jagan Teki]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18/11/16 13:02, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Maxime Ripard
>> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> A while back I wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Between my $dayjob, linux-sunxi, other foss projects and last but
>>>> not least spending time with my wife and children I'm way too
>>>> busy lately.
>>>>
>>>> So I've decided to seriously scale back my involvement in
>>>> linux-sunxi, as such I'm going to step down as u-boot sunxi
>>>> custodian."
>>
>> Hans, thanks for all your great work.
>
> +1 for Hans' good work!
>
>>>>
>>>> After that I did get some breathing room, and kept doing
>>>> sunxi u-boot maintenance until now, but this still feels
>>>> too much like a job rather then a hobby. The problem is
>>>> that I don't want to think during the weekend:
>>>> "Oh !@#$ I still need to prep a u-boot sunxi pull-req"
>>>>
>>>> This is nothing against the u-boot community, I think
>>>> you're all great and I still love thinkering with this
>>>> kind of stuff, but when a hobby starts feeling as a chore
>>>> something is wrong.
>>>>
>>>> So after this mail I'm going to send a mail updating
>>>> the MAINTAINERS status of sunxi to orphan and I will also
>>>> unsubscribe myself from the u-boot list to protect myself
>>>> against getting dragged in again.
>>>>
>>>> I do expect (after taking a break for a couple of weeks)
>>>> that I will likely submit the occasional patch, but at
>>>> this point in time I do not want any maintainer
>>>> responsibilities.
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday and today I've gone over my pending patches
>>>> queue, reviewed then all and I've merged all the ones
>>>> which looked good into u-boot-sunxi/next, so that
>>>> should be a good starting point for the next
>>>> maintainer.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for the great work you did over those years :)
>>>
>>>> Jagan (in the Cc) has indicated in the past that he is
>>>> interested in taking over as sunxi custodian, Jagan already
>>>> is the SPI custodian, so I believe that he will do well.
>>>>
>>>> So Jagan, if you still want the job, go for it.
>>
>> OK, Hans thanks for believing my work - will try my best.
>>
>>>
>>> As I said before, I can help whoever is willing to take over by
>>> becoming co-maintainer for some time, in order to make the transition
>>> as smooth as possible.
>>>
>>> Jagan, are you still willing to do this?
>>
>> Yes, Maxime I will do this, please help me for initial transition and
>> technical details if any.
>> Can I get any board sample from any all-winner or related communities?
>
> Feel free to send any 64-bit (A64, H64, H5) related questions/patches
> into my direction. I can test stuff, also give advice and do reviews.

Thanks.

Hans, I see few redundant commits on next wrt latest master in b/w,
can you point me diff commits which needs to send PR? I tried of
comparing but not get the exact result.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan Teki
Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.