[U-Boot] ATMEL Custodians == /dev/null ??

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 22:02:12 Reinhard Meyer wrote:
> it seems that Atmel is not willing to provide manpower for custodians.

i think the linux/open source team there saw some shrinkage, and/or the higher 
ups thought a change in direction away from working with the 
community/upstream was the way to go (and to simply maintain an internal fork 
perpetually).  i'm of course just speculating based on their drop off in 
submissions in general across open source projects and have no direct 
knowledge of anything.

from the developers pov, they probably dont have much choice.  when the 
economy shrinks and your boss says that is no longer your job, then it's a 
hard choice.  do the right thing or continue to eat ;).

> I have spend considerable extra time to split my work towards the u-boot
> port of our new boards into separate patches for the AT91 SoCs.
> 
> I have sent them to the list some weeks ago only to see that exactly
> NOTHING happens to move them towards mainstream.
> 
> Unless something happens soon in that regard I will in the future
> refrain from investing extra hours to create patches for Atmel hardware.

if the maintainers are effectively dead, then i'd suggest someone (i.e. 
Wolfgang) hand the custodian role over to someone willing to do the work.  
employment by the company who owns the processor in question only goes so far.  
vastly more important are the people doing the actual work and in this case, 
it seems like that person might be you vs anyone with @atmel.com in their e-
mail address.
-mike
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